Re: Background scan of sata drives

[Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>]

I could have sworn I saw a patch in the last month or two that made the 
modprobe scan NON blocking, and added a new dummy module you could 
modprobe that would block until the scan was complete.  Am I imagining this?

Tejun Heo wrote:
> Phillip Susi wrote:
>> I seem to recall seeing mention flow by on the lkml at some point that 
>> sata disks are now scanned in the background rather than blocking in 
>> the modprobe, but that there is a new dummy module you can load that 
>> just blocks until all drives have been scanned.  I tried but was 
>> unable to find the thread that mentioned this, so does anyone know 
>> what that module was?
> 
> Scanning during boot and module loading is blocking.  modprobe will wait 
> in the kernel until the initial scan is complete.  But user initiated 
> scan (echo - - - > /sys/class/scsi_host/hostX/scan) doesn't wait for 
> completion.  Patch to make user scan blocking is pending.
>