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From: Karl Kiniger <karl.kiniger@med.ge.com>
To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <linux-os@analogic.com>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Inconsistent disk state when creating paritions
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:33:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108093305.GA10952@kipc2.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0901071715070.9551@chaos.analogic.com>

On Wed 090107, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
> Attempting to use mkfs immediately after creating
> partitions using sfdisk, (in the same shell-script)
> fails with all kernels I have tried. The partition
> information doesn't get updated for several seconds!

are you using udev?

udev takes some time to create the partition devices

Karl

> 
> In every case, with both ext2 and ext3 file-systems,
> I can create them manually or I can sleep in the
> shell-script. However, I don't think this problem
> should exist.
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-07 22:23 linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2009-01-08  9:33 ` Karl Kiniger [this message]

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