Re: 2.5.43 disk repartitioning problems

[Dave Olien]

I made a typo in the message below.  The partitioning issue appears
in linux 2.5.43. (NOT 2.4.3 ..)

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 10:52:05AM -0700, Dave Olien wrote:
> 
> Al,
> 
> I'm working on the Mylex DAC960 device driver, bring in up to date
> with the new block and dma interfaces.  I've been posting patches on
> occasion.  I've also noticed you updating the driver when you make changes
> to the gendisk kernel interfaces.   Those updates are very helpful.
> 
> I've noticed in 2.4.3 at least, that some changes to disk partitions
> aren't noticed until you reboot.  The same problem is seen with aacraid.
> I don't THINK this is a driver issue.  But, I might have missed something.  
> 
> I tried repartitioning two disks.  On the first disk, I used fdisk
> to split a single large partition into four smaller ones.  Afterwards,
> the first partition on that drive was still accessible.  But I couldn't
> access the three new partitions.  I didn't test to see if the first
> partition had been reduced in size.  Rebooting made the new partitions
> accessible.
> 
> In the second case, I split an unpartitioned drive into four partitions.
> None of the new partitions were accessible until I rebooted.
> 
> Is this still a work in progress, or is there some driver hook I've missed?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dave Olien
> Open Source Development Lab
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