[systemd-devel] Inhibiting plug and play

[Phillip Susi]

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Various tools, but most notably partitioners, manipulate disks in such
a way that they need to prevent the rest of the system from racing
with them while they are in the middle of manipulating the disk.
Presently this is done with a hodge podge of hacks that involve
running some script or executable to temporarily hold off on some
aspects ( typically only auto mounting ) of plug and play processing.
 Which one depends on whether you are running hal, udisks, udisks2, or
systemd.

There really needs to be a proper way at a lower level, either udev,
or maybe in the kernel, to inhibit processing events until the tool
changing the device has finished completely.  The question is, should
this be in the kernel, or in udev, and what should the interface be?

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