Re: [PATCH 0/2] block: avoid to drop & re-add partitions if partitions aren't changed

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:44:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:03:41PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> I think this is a fundamentally bad idea.  We should not keep the
> parsed partition state around forever just to work around some buggy
> user space software.

What is the bug in userspace software?

Do you think it is correct for ioctl(BLKRRPART) to always drop/re-add
partition device node?

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Ming