trying to gain understanding on BLKRRPART and "failed to re-read partition table" error

[Daniel Wagner]

On Fri, Jan 06, 2023 at 12:46:42PM -0700, Keith Busch wrote:
> There really is no need for user space to do the BLKRRPART ioctl
> anymore. The kernel takes care of the rescan automatically, so unless
> you've a really old kernel, we might be better off just removing the
> ioctl.

As far I can tell, the current version of nvme-cli doesn't issue
any BLKRRPART ioctl anymore (although the documentation says so).