[dm-devel] Device removal handling

Phillip Susi psusi at cfl.rr.com
Wed Jul 13 15:53:29 UTC 2011


On 7/12/2011 6:58 AM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> We already have dmsetup remove -f which replaced a device by the error
> target then attempts to remove it (which will fail if it is still in
> use).
>
> You have a need for this without the removal attempt?

The question is, how do you get udev to invoke this when the underlying 
device is removed?  It has no idea what dm device was using the disk. 
Further, if it was a mirror, then you don't want to try to kill the 
mirror if the other leg is still good, you just want the mirror to fail 
and release the removed disk.




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