All, This is a 2 part patch series to make libvirt backend device scanning more reliable. In particular, this is important for things that can create/destroy udev /dev nodes, since at present we can race with the udev creation. Note that this takes over the previous patch that I posted to retry /dev/disk/by-{id,path} scanning. Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance(a)redhat.com&gt;