RE: read only scsi disk

berthiaume_wayne
2006-02-09T19:32:51Z

I seem to recall this behavior had something to do with the handling of
CD/ROM disks at one time.

Regards,
Wayne.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org
[mailto:linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Ming Zhang
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:19 PM
To: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: linux-scsi; Damian Pietras
Subject: Re: read only scsi disk

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 ...

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