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From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: libblkid: Idea to force given cached entry to be invalidated?
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:02:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140418110244.GL5786@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <534F90D2.1030807@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 04:29:06PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
> >>So if someone (maybe insane) use mknod to create as block device file and
> >>use 'btrfs dev del' on the newly created
> >>block device file, libblkid will still be unable to detect the change since
> >>the ctime/mtime of block device file in /dev/
> >>does not change.
> >Not sure if I understand, it would be nice to have complete example.
> >
> >     Karel
> >
> Sorry for my poor English.
> Use /dev/sda6(major 8, minor 6) as an example.
> ------
> # stat  /dev/sda6
>   File: '/dev/sda6'
>   Size: 0             Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   block special file
> Device: 5h/5d    Inode: 7289        Links: 1     Device type: 8,6
> Access: (0660/brw-rw----)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    6/ disk)
> Access: 2014-04-17 12:30:08.981732698 +0800
> Modify: 2014-04-17 12:30:08.981732698 +0800
> Change: 2014-04-17 12:30:08.981732698 +0800
>                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  Birth: -
> # mknod sda6 b 8 6
> # mkfs.ext4 ./sda6 <<< Not /dev/sda6

 Ah... it's too crazy to support this scenario :-)

    Karel

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 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

      reply	other threads:[~2014-04-18 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-15  2:15 libblkid: Idea to force given cached entry to be invalidated? Qu Wenruo
2014-04-15  4:27 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-15  4:52   ` Qu Wenruo
2014-04-15 11:21 ` Karel Zak
2014-04-16  0:53   ` Qu Wenruo
2014-04-16  9:03     ` Karel Zak
2014-04-17  1:17       ` Qu Wenruo
2014-04-17  8:21         ` Karel Zak
2014-04-17  8:29           ` Qu Wenruo
2014-04-18 11:02             ` Karel Zak [this message]

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