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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd: do not set changed flag on all unit attention conditions
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:45:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5005B2AC.6020102@cs.wisc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50059713.7090606@redhat.com>

On 07/17/2012 10:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 17/07/2012 18:36, Christoph Hellwig ha scritto:
>>>> There's no such thing in the market today as a removable disk that's
>>>> resizeable.  Removable disks are for things like backup cartridges and
>>>> ageing jazz drives.  Worse: most removeable devices today are USB card
>>>> readers whose standards compliance varies from iffy to non existent.
>>>> Resizeable disks are currently the province of storage arrays.
>> The virtual disks exported by aacraid are both marked removable and
>> can be resized.
> 
> Do they report resizing via unit attention?  I can skip this part on
> removable virtio-scsi disks if that's what real hardware does, it would
> also work.
> 

Not sure if we are talking about the same thing.

So can virtio-scsi send a UA with asc/ascq that indicates the lun
changed size? Other drivers do this. I updated Hannes's patches the
other day to support UAs like those in userspace.

I just saw the code in the patch where virtio-scsi gets that event.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-17 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-16 16:06 [PATCH] sd: do not set changed flag on all unit attention conditions Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-16 16:18 ` James Bottomley
2012-07-16 17:20   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17  7:45     ` James Bottomley
2012-07-17  8:34       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17  8:40         ` James Bottomley
2012-07-17  8:54           ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17  9:11             ` James Bottomley
2012-07-17  9:28               ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17 12:21                 ` James Bottomley
2012-07-17 12:31                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17 13:32                     ` James Bottomley
2012-07-17 16:36               ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-17 16:47                 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17 16:50                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2012-07-17 18:45                   ` Mike Christie [this message]
2012-07-17 18:49                     ` Mike Christie
2012-07-17 21:12                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-07-17 21:59                 ` James Bottomley
2012-07-27 10:16                   ` Hannes Reinecke
2012-07-25 12:09               ` Hannes Reinecke

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