linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Disable partition scan

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Message-ID: <48B548CA.8040503@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:30:02 +0200
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable partition scan

Hi all again,

Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> for some setups (eg dmraid or multipathing) the in-kernel partition scan
> is pointless; the (block) partitions won't be used anywhere. Instead the
> system will be using kpartx-generated device-mapper devices.
> Worse, on some setups (RAID0 dmraid or active/passive multipath devices)
> the in-kernel partition scan will generate plenty of I/O errors as the
> partitions table might not be accessible or invalid for this device.
> 
> This patch implements a new kernel command-line option 'no_partition_scan'
> which will switch off the partition scan globally. The partition scan can
> be re-enabled for individual devices by echoing any positive number smaller
> than the number of minors into
> /sys/class/block/XXX/range
> 
> and rescanning the device.
> 
> Please apply.
> 
Yeah, cool. One should take care not to mangle to patches.
Should teach me to use git properly. Oh well.

Corrected patch attached.

Cheers,

Hannes

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