Hi all, this patch switches the device-mapper table to read-only status automatically if one underlying device returns -EROFS. Rationale: Whenever a SCSI device is switched to read-only a table reload from multipath-tools fails, without any indication about the reason. And it's actually quite tricky to detect the read-only status from userland. And quite pointless, too, as the kernel already knows about it. And we now can create tables for CD-ROMs, too, without having to use the '-r' flag to dmsetup ... Christophe, this might also fix your problem. As usual, comments etc are welcome. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage hare@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)