Re: parted behavior change between 3.1 and 3.2

[Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>]

Hi Phil,

On 24/05/2016 19:16, Phil Susi wrote:
> On 5/23/2016 3:41 AM, Loic Dachary wrote:
>> Hi Philip,
>>
>> In the context of the Ceph ( http://ceph.com/ ) project, I'm trying
>> to figure out why parted 3.2 fixes a problem that shows in 3.1 [1].
>> In a nutshell, calling partprobe sometime fails with "device busy"
>> with 3.1 and when using 3.2 that never happens (all things are the
>> same, only parted changes). I took a look at the commits in
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/log/ but I didn't see a
>> commit that would explain such a behavior change.
>>
>> Any pointer or idea you may have would be greatly appreciated :-)
> 
> An strace would help, but if I had to guess, one significant change
> between 3.1 and 3.2 was the addition of the ability to resize mounted
> partitions, so it could be that partprobe is adjusting the size of a
> changed partition, and it used to not be able to do that if it is mounted.
> 

That's an interesting lead, I'll double check if that could be the cause. Thanks very much for the hint !

I'll let you know how it evolves.

Cheers

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre
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