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

[Daniel Wagner]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 11:11:57AM +0100, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> 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).

Blech, I need coffee. It's still there :)