> Not unless you have hot swap bays. It isnt safe to swap scsi disks between
> devices on live busses. Now if you do have hot swap arrays then you do
> arguably have a case - although the bus rescan you ought to request will
> handle it
It should be safe, at least from a software point-of-view.
> What bug ?
The bug that the kernel assumes things which it cannot guarantee,
specifically that there are no two computers on the same scsi cable, which
is possible.
> If you want to flush the blocks of a disk on a umount or a mount you can do
> so btw - there are ioctls for this.
You cannot rely on the user to do something to protect the integrity of
his data, as he/she/it will simply forget.
Simon
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