Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932365AbZAGWsq (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:48:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758798AbZAGWsS (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:48:18 -0500 Received: from mail91.analogic.com ([12.187.86.31]:48776 "EHLO mail01.analogic.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757521AbZAGWsP convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:48:15 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1485 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:48:15 EST X-AuditID: 0a770115-ac9eebb000000e72-18-49652b628fbd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Jan 2009 22:23:09.0153 (UTC) FILETIME=[85029D10:01C97116] Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Inconsistent disk state when creating paritions Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:23:09 -0500 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: thread-topic: Inconsistent disk state when creating paritions thread-index: AclxFoUJ5Hrrt45OSXGOvmyxN9wc3w== From: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" To: "Linux kernel" Reply-To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 35 Attempting to use mkfs immediately after creating partitions using sfdisk, (in the same shell-script) fails with all kernels I have tried. The partition information doesn't get updated for several seconds! In every case, with both ext2 and ext3 file-systems, I can create them manually or I can sleep in the shell-script. However, I don't think this problem should exist. The problem was first discovered with old-fashioned IDE disks. I don't have any spare SATA drives to see if the problem exists there. I note that sfdisk says it is re-reading to update the parition information. Does anybody know about this or care? Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.25.17 on an i686 machine (4784.32 Gimps). My book : http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/ . **************************************************************** The information transmitted in this message is confidential and may be privileged. Any review, retransmission, dissemination, or other use of this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify Analogic Corporation immediately - by replying to this message or by sending an email to DeliveryErrors@analogic.com - and destroy all copies of this information, including any attachments, without reading or disclosing them. Thank you. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/