From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Loic Dachary Subject: Re: parted behavior change between 3.1 and 3.2 Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 00:30:42 +0200 Message-ID: <5744D612.6050905@dachary.org> References: <5742B42C.7050000@dachary.org> <5ba70630-84af-f7b6-802c-933b1a26f273@ubuntu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from slow1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.86]:60934 "EHLO slow1-d.mail.gandi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751075AbcEXWat (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 May 2016 18:30:49 -0400 Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net (relay6-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.198]) by slow1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F91A47A43F for ; Wed, 25 May 2016 00:30:47 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <5ba70630-84af-f7b6-802c-933b1a26f273@ubuntu.com> Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Phil Susi Cc: Ceph Development 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 :-) >=20 > 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 mou= nted. >=20 That's an interesting lead, I'll double check if that could be the caus= e. Thanks very much for the hint ! I'll let you know how it evolves. Cheers --=20 Lo=C3=AFc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html