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authorEd L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>2008-02-08 04:20:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-08 09:22:31 -0800
commit262bf54144ebcb78cd0d057d2705dc5fb7bba7ac (patch)
tree6a995fead6fa9638e02fc6e3928fe0a8612f073a /Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh
parentcf446f0dbafb5428a551da1c0df8f56316831df8 (diff)
aoe: user can ask driver to forget previously detected devices
When an AoE device is detected, the kernel is informed, and a new block device is created. If the device is unused, the block device corresponding to remote device that is no longer available may be removed from the system by telling the aoe driver to "flush" its list of devices. Without this patch, software like GPFS and LVM may attempt to read from AoE devices that were discovered earlier but are no longer present, blocking until the I/O attempt times out. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh
index 97374aacacb..44c0ab70243 100644
--- a/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh
+++ b/Documentation/aoe/mkdevs.sh
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ rm -f $dir/interfaces
mknod -m 0200 $dir/interfaces c $MAJOR 4
rm -f $dir/revalidate
mknod -m 0200 $dir/revalidate c $MAJOR 5
+rm -f $dir/flush
+mknod -m 0200 $dir/flush c $MAJOR 6
export n_partitions
mkshelf=`echo $0 | sed 's!mkdevs!mkshelf!'`