From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:25:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH] improve atomicity of device creation Message-Id: <20071211162538.GR22311@agk.fab.redhat.com> List-Id: References: <1197389316.25082.27.camel@quest> In-Reply-To: <1197389316.25082.27.camel@quest> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: device-mapper development Cc: linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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 -- agk@redhat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel