[PATCH] NVMe: Reread partitions on metadata formats

Paul Grabinar paul.grabinar at ranbarg.com
Wed Jul 15 10:37:31 PDT 2015


On 14/07/15 19:49, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 07/14/2015 11:57 AM, Keith Busch wrote:
>> This patch has the driver automatically reread partitions if a namespace
>> has a separate metadata format. Previously revalidating a disk was
>> sufficient to get the correct capacity set on such formatted drives,
>> but partitions that may exist would not have been surfaced.
>
> Looks sane to me. Paul, does this fix your issue?
>
>

Yes, I can confirm this fixes the issue. After loading the driver, the
devices for the partitions are now created are are usable.
Thank you.




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