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From: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>
Subject: Re: read only scsi disk
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:19:15 -0500
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so fc disk is also removable, since anyone could unplug the fc cable at
any time...

so even parallel scsi disk, sata disk...

i donot think this is a good reason. ;)

ming

On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:02 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:04:07PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote:
> > We are adding the support for an OSS iscsi target to support export an
> > iscsi disk as readonly. We set correct read only bit in sense dbd. But
> > we found that only when we set the removable bit, the linux will
> > actually check the ro bit. more detail information can be found from
> 
> Surely all iSCSI discs are removable, since anyone could unplug the
> network cable at any time ...