From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:25:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211162538.GR22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197389316.25082.27.camel@quest>
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:08:36PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> This is a patch we've written and applied in Ubuntu to improve the
> atomicity of devmapper device creation somewhat, and avoid races with
> udev.
BTW I won't be applying this upstream - these nodes are designed to be
managed by libdevmapper not udev so it's not relevant. I'm awaiting
patches that have been promised to an agreed design that will provide
for correct libdevmapper/udev integration without races/deadlocks etc.
Alasdair
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 16:08 [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 16:25 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2007-12-11 16:42 ` [dm-devel] " Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:03 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 17:18 ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:51 ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 18:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 18:25 ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 19:13 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 19:43 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 17:35 ` Kay Sievers
2007-12-11 17:40 ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 17:53 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2007-12-11 19:09 ` Scott James Remnant
2007-12-11 18:03 ` Kay Sievers
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