From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Snitzer Subject: Re: [md PATCH 8/8] md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device. Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 21:03:44 -0400 Message-ID: <170fa0d20908051803ud6ef819xdad3cafe44cc1fb8@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090802215444.4198.83094.stgit@notabene.brown> <20090802215818.4198.77041.stgit@notabene.brown> <4A7A0287.5010505@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A7A0287.5010505@zytor.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: NeilBrown , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 08/02/2009 02:58 PM, NeilBrown wrote: >> As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause >> any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev >> inode. =A0So use that instead of mucking about with locks and >> i_size_write. >> >> Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other plac= es >> where the gendisk capacity is changed. >> > > This patch causes my Fedora 11 system with all filesystems on RAID-1 = to > not boot (it hangs in early userspace, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the syste= m.) I reported similar findings, with some more detail, relative to =46edora's rawhide here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/5/275 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html