[dm-devel] Next release plans?

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On Tue, 2016-04-19 at 00:22 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
> On 04/18/2016 11:42 AM, Christophe Varoqui wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hannes has not submitted the SuSE patchset for inclusion yet, but I'll bump
> > the version to 0.6.1 if he does.
> CCed: Ritesh, Debian maintainer.
> 
> Maybe there is some pending patches for upstream at Debian.

In Debian, we don't have much delta. The only minor (1 liner) patch I see
carrying is:

rrs at learner:~/.rrs-home/Community/Packaging/multipath-tools (master)$ cat
debian/patches/increase-kpartx-retries.patch 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2015-May/msg00087.html

Many users have reported that increasing the retries solves the problem

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=785251
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734794
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=608737
Index: multipath-tools/kpartx/lopart.c
===================================================================
--- multipath-tools.orig/kpartx/lopart.c	2015-10-16 21:33:27.235438304
+0530
+++ multipath-tools/kpartx/lopart.c	2015-10-16 21:33:27.231438251 +0530
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
 extern int 
 del_loop (const char *device)
 {
-	int retries = 3;
+	int retries = 5;
 	int fd;
 
 	if ((fd = open (device, O_RDONLY)) < 0) {

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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
Debian - The Universal Operating System
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