Re: [PATCH] sd: do not set changed flag on all unit attentionconditions

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 12:36 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:11:57AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> > 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.

So what are properties of these things? ... or is this just an instance
of a RAID manufacturer hacking around a problem by adding a removable
flag?

James


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/