From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@infradead.org (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 08:43:37 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] nvme: freeze IO accesses around format In-Reply-To: <6951d74c-e765-1b5d-6e39-d88d261bf9b9@kernel.dk> References: <6951d74c-e765-1b5d-6e39-d88d261bf9b9@kernel.dk> Message-ID: <20171101154337.GB25317@infradead.org> On Fri, Oct 27, 2017@10:35:58AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > Prevents this by freezing IO access to the device around a format. > Without this, the following set of commands can easily make your device > disappear: > > parted -s /dev/nvme3n1 mklabel gpt > parted -s /dev/nvme3n1 mkpart primary 0G 100G > parted -s /dev/nvme3n1 rm 1 > nvme format /dev/nvme3 Can you wire this test case up for blktests?