Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261625AbTHZOdI (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:33:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261636AbTHZOc7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:32:59 -0400 Received: from pub234.cambridge.redhat.com ([213.86.99.234]:59410 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261625AbTHZOce (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:32:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 15:32:28 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: James Bottomley Cc: dougg@torque.net, SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel , ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test4] blocking access to mounted scsi devices Message-ID: <20030826153228.A26979@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , dougg@torque.net, SCSI Mailing List , Linux Kernel , ballen@gravity.phys.uwm.edu 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 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1061906937.1830.11.camel@mulgrave>; from James.Bottomley@steeleye.com on Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 16 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/