On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:32:51PM +0200, Harald Seipp wrote: > James Bottomley wrote on 11.08.2005 15:59:27: > > On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 12:09 +0200, Harald Seipp wrote: > > > I assume this is a bug? How can I prevent that behavior? Can I easily > query > > > if a device on "h b t l" is mounted to work-around? > > > > No, it's expected behaviour. The mount keeps a reference to the old > > device node so it can't be reused. > Ok - but shouldn't the behavior that devices that have mounted partitions > can be removed be considered as a bug? > Linux 2.4 SCSI Subsystem Howto, proc interface: "....The removal will fail > if the device is busy (e.g. if a file system on the device is mounted)." The trouble is that users can surprise-remove drives (eg USB memory) and there's nothing we can do about it. So the SCSI subsystem is designed to cope as best it can with such a scenario rather than trying to forbid in software an action that already took place in hardware. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
