On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > > I have not tested it yet, but I am pretty sure it won't work. It > > looks like the patch changes the BLKRRPART path to go ahead and remove > > existing partitions when GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN is set. loop doesn't > > issue the BLKRRPART ioctl when !LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN so this won't help. > > I think loop needs to set GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN and then issue the > > ioctl regardless of the LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN flag to get the partitions > > to be removed. I will try to test tonight. > > After testing, my initial thoughts appeared to have been correct. I had > to modify the patch as follows. To test, simply do: > > truncate -s 10m img > losetup /dev/loop0 img > parted /dev/loop0 > mklabel msdos > mkpart primary ext2 1m 2m > quit > ls /dev/loop0* > > Note the /dev/loop0p1 node. Run losetup -d /dev/loop0 and see if it is > still there.
Jens, can we get one of these fixes merged quickly? xfstests is unusable on any kernel more recent than 3.9-rc4 because of these problems.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner da...@fromorbit.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
