From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ankit Jain Subject: Re: [PATCH] aacraid: Add module param to export disks as 'fixed' instead of 'removable' Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 18:29:43 +0530 Message-ID: <4DD665BF.4080502@suse.de> References: <4DD2CE01.9090403@suse.de> <20110517193544.GA27336@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:47561 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932349Ab1ETM60 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 May 2011 08:58:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Mark Salyzyn Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, aacraid@adaptec.com, Hannes Reinecke On 05/19/2011 01:51 AM, Mark Salyzyn wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 01:05:29AM +0530, Ankit Jain wrote: >>> aacraid: Add 'aac_export_fixed' module param to export disks as >>> 'fixed' instead of 'removable'. >>> Adaptec controllers set the removable flag on devices to >>> allow for reconfiguration. The fear is that _not_ setting this >>> flag would inhibit the OS from detecting any device reconfiguration. >> The flag should not be set at all and just be removed. > > This will break the RAID Management Software, and various Firmware > features (snapshot, thin-provisioning etc) I'm trying to get a better understanding. How do the RAID management software and firmware features depend on this? -- Ankit Jain SUSE Labs