Bug#755806: util-linux: sfdisk makes unnecessary calls to sync

2014-07-23 Thread Andreas Henriksson
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 03:42:05PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: [...] > > I've already checked the version of util-linux in experimental and the > sync calls are still present. I was probably unclear. This work is not done yet. It's going to happen in upstream master this development cycle and be

Bug#755806: util-linux: sfdisk makes unnecessary calls to sync

2014-07-23 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 16:32:49 +0200 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Neil Williams! > > Thanks for your bug report regardisk sfdisk and sync. > > I've been working on trying to get a newer util-linux into Debian > (experimental) and I just wanted to add a note here that upstream > is working on

Bug#755806: util-linux: sfdisk makes unnecessary calls to sync

2014-07-23 Thread Neil Williams
Package: util-linux Version: 2.20.1-5.8 Severity: important LAVA has systems which prepare and manipulate images for multiple test jobs in parallel - some of these calls involve using sfdisk to manipulate partitions when generating a new or updated image. We are regularly seeing deadlocks involvi