[parted-devel] [PATCH]parted: acquire flock before modifying the device superblock
John Gilmore
gnu at toad.com
Fri Oct 21 09:36:53 BST 2022
Parted shouldn't lock itself (or systemd) out of concurrent access
to the same device. But if there is a bug relating to concurrent
"formatting a filesystem and systemd", then why not get an flock
just for the duration of formatting a file system? Formatting
is a write-only operation and there's no point in trying to do two
of them concurrently on the same file system.
John
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