[parted-devel] [PATCH 10/11] Revert "linux-commit: do not unnecessarily open partition device nodes"

[Brian C. Lane]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 11:44:35PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
> This reverts commit 2a6936fab4d4499a4b812dd330d3db50549029e0.  The commit
> disabled flushing the block buffer caches on the partition nodes to ensure
> cache consistency on 2.6 kernels, supposedly because this was no longer
> required.  It appears this was incorrect, and the caches DO still need
> flushed, otherwise a new fs written to the partition device does not show
> up in the disk device cache, causing parted to still identify the old fs.
> ---

Can you address the other issues detailed in that commit? Are we now
going to have problems with udev?

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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