Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] raw-posix: Re-open host CD-ROM after media change

[Amit Shah]

On (Tue) 05 Apr 2011 [09:40:05], Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > See http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg51504.html
> 
> I don't think that patch updates the block inode size.  We'd need to
> call fs/block_dev.c:revalidate_disk() instead of directly calling
> cdi->disk->fops->revalidate_disk(cdi->disk).
> fs/block_dev.c:revalidate_disk() calls check_disk_size_change(), which
> will update the inode size.

Then the patch is buggy :-)  As Tejun also says in the thread, the
patch should be in the block layer, not sr.c.

(btw that patch does update /sys/block/sr0/size, so that part of
revalidation is done.)

                Amit