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| author | Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> | 2011-09-22 17:12:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com> | 2011-09-22 17:12:28 +0000 |
| commit | 047e4cd2f5ca1096194b251361b3da6d48b9bb06 (patch) | |
| tree | 0610fb30368426f47547df0e2c3f3b21deccd3d9 /man | |
| parent | 355b2224b2f19a79280b99f05aafa89a10f47321 (diff) | |
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Add --retry option for dmsetup remove to retry removal if not successful.
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| -rw-r--r-- | man/dmsetup.8.in | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/dmsetup.8.in b/man/dmsetup.8.in index 175a429e..f75126cb 100644 --- a/man/dmsetup.8.in +++ b/man/dmsetup.8.in @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dmsetup \- low level logical volume management .I [{ --addnodeonresume | --addnodeoncreate }] .br .B dmsetup remove -.I [-f|--force] device_name +.I [-f|--force] [--retry] device_name .br .B dmsetup remove_all .I [-f|--force] @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ If no device_name is supplied, ensure that all nodes in /dev/mapper correspond to mapped devices currently loaded by the device-mapper kernel driver, adding, changing or removing nodes as necessary. .IP \fBremove -.I [-f|--force] device_name +.I [-f|--force] [--retry] device_name .br Removes a device. It will no longer be visible to dmsetup. Open devices cannot be removed except with older kernels @@ -290,7 +290,10 @@ drops to zero. From version 4.8.0 onwards, if a device can't be removed because an uninterruptible process is waiting for I/O to return from it, adding --force will replace the table with one that fails all I/O, which might allow the -process to be killed. +process to be killed. If an attempt to remove a device fails, +perhaps because a process run from a quick udev rule +temporarily opened the device, the --retry option will cause +the operation to be retried for a few seconds before failing. .IP \fBremove_all .I [-f|--force] .br |