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From: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>
To: Paul Clements <paul.clements@steeleye.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Laurent Vivier <Laurent.Vivier@bull.net>,
	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 1/1] NBD: add partition support
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 15:44:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080402134414.GA4192@country.nixsys.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47F2A5A1.3010308@steeleye.com>

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Paul Clements wrote:
> Below, Laurent notes that partition table re-read doesn't automatically  
> occur. For now you'll have to open("/dev/nbdX") to get that to happen.
> Longer term, nbd-client can be modified to fork just before nbd_do_it()  
> and then call ioctl(BLKRRPART, "/dev/nbdX") in the parent process  
> (probably need to wait for the "pid" file to show up in /sys to avoid a  
> race).

I just released nbd-2.9.10, which does just that.

-- 
<Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes.
  -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-04 13:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01 21:14 Paul Clements
2008-04-02 13:44 ` Wouter Verhelst [this message]

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