From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test4] blocking access to mounted scsi devices Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:32:28 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030826153228.A26979@infradead.org> References: <3F49B515.6010107@torque.net> <20030825130822.A4258@infradead.org> <3F4B3482.4060304@torque.net> <1061906937.1830.11.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1061906937.1830.11.camel@mulgrave>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0500 To: James Bottomley Cc: dougg@torque.net, SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel , ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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.