Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 1/1] NBD: add partition support

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Paul Clements wrote:
> Below, Laurent notes that partition table re-read doesn't automatically  
> occur. For now you'll have to open("/dev/nbdX") to get that to happen.
> Longer term, nbd-client can be modified to fork just before nbd_do_it()  
> and then call ioctl(BLKRRPART, "/dev/nbdX") in the parent process  
> (probably need to wait for the "pid" file to show up in /sys to avoid a  
> race).

I just released nbd-2.9.10, which does just that.

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