[parted-devel] [PATCH V2 1/2] arch: Fix race between systemd and parted command

[Gulam Mohamed]

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> From: Phillip Susi <phill at thesusis.net>
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> Subject: Re: [parted-devel] [PATCH V2 1/2] arch: Fix race between systemd
> and parted command
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> Gulam Mohamed <gulam.mohamed at oracle.com> writes:
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> Why is systemd deleting and recreating the partitions?  It shouldn't be doing
> that should it?  And isn't this a bit of a hacky workaround to the race
> condition rather than actually fixing it?  Maybe parted needs to take out the
> bsd lock to tell systemd to keep its hands off of the disk until parted is done
> with it?

Thanks for the review Phillip. This approach was suggested by Brian C. Lane. Can you please see conversation of the first version of this fix here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/parted-devel@alioth-lists.debian.net/msg00660.html

After Brian's suggestions, I worked on this version V2.

Regards,
Gulam Mohamed.