From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Merritt Subject: Re: Inhibit auto-attach of scsi disks ? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:49:37 -0400 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021001214937.6eebe5d2.Scsi@PragmaSoft.com> References: <20021001080115.A27028@eng2.beaverton.ibm.com> <200210011514.g91FEC703750@localhost.localdomain> <20021001161819.36c43d89.Scsi@PragmaSoft.com> <1033519584.20103.38.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1033519584.20103.38.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Scsi@PragmaSoft.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > You can do all those things while it is attached as a disk device. Yes - my concerns are perhaps more "artistic" (and possibly misguided). If I am mounting a disk for low level maintenance, it may not have a valid partition table and I may not appreciate the Syslog warnings related to the partition table. Furthermore, all though I haven't investigated, it seems like it might be tricky to determine that I have altered the partition table and that /dev/sdb6 is no longer a valid partition. To me, it just seemed that giving the user/administrator some way to control/inhibit the auto-attachment would be a "cleaner" solution to the problem - but that's just one man's opinion ... :) Regards, Scott.