fdisk reinstate sleep

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Monday 11 July 2011 17:45, Bob Dunlop wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been chasing an intermittent problem with busybox's fdisk
> implementation.  About one command in ten was failing on me when used
> with slow external USB disks on a 320MHz ARM system.  The BLKRRPART
> ioctl was returning device busy.
> 
> I traced it to a commented out sleep(2) in fdisk.c.  With the sleep
> reinstated fdisk is reliable.

What is the minimum usleep(MICROSEC) it works for you?

What is your kernel version and model of USB disk?

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