From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: dougg@torque.net, SCSI Mailing List <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu
Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test4] blocking access to mounted scsi devices
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:32:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826153228.A26979@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1061906937.1830.11.camel@mulgrave>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0500
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> Hang on, that's not the way it's supposed to work.
>
> Mount should be on partition devices (like /dev/sda1) whereas the tools
> should be on whole disc devices (like /dev/sda). I thought we'd agreed
> that even opening a partition exclusively wouldn't affect the ability to
> open the whole disc device (but opening the whole disc device
> exclusively would block access to all partitions).
Linus accepted a patch from Neil Brown in -test4 that changes this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-26 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-25 7:04 [2.6.0-test4] blocking access to mounted scsi devices Douglas Gilbert
2003-08-25 12:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-26 10:20 ` Douglas Gilbert
2003-08-26 14:08 ` James Bottomley
2003-08-26 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-08-26 14:57 ` James Bottomley
2003-08-26 16:23 ` Bruce Allen
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