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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: Ming Zhang <mingz@ele.uri.edu>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Damian Pietras <daper@daper.net>
Subject: Re: read only scsi disk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:35:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060210103537.GA27401@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060209190225.GI1593@parisc-linux.org>

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:02:25PM -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 ...

The removable flags means a removeable medium.  All devices are treated as
beeing able to just go away when the transport is disconnected or the HBA
removed.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-09 17:04 read only scsi disk Ming Zhang
2006-02-09 19:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-02-09 19:19   ` Ming Zhang
2006-02-09 19:54   ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-09 20:01     ` Ming Zhang
2006-02-10 10:35   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-02-09 19:36 ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-09 19:41   ` Ming Zhang
2006-02-09 20:57     ` Stefan Richter
2006-02-09 21:11       ` Ming Zhang
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-09 19:32 berthiaume_wayne
2006-02-09 19:38 ` Ming Zhang

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