I seem to recall this behavior had something to do with the handling of CD/ROM disks at one time. Regards, Wayne. -----Original Message----- From: linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ming Zhang Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 2:19 PM To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: linux-scsi; Damian Pietras Subject: Re: read only scsi disk so fc disk is also removable, since anyone could unplug the fc cable at any time... so even parallel scsi disk, sata disk... i donot think this is a good reason. ;) ming On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:02 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 12:04:07PM -0500, Ming Zhang wrote: > > We are adding the support for an OSS iscsi target to support export an > > iscsi disk as readonly. We set correct read only bit in sense dbd. But > > we found that only when we set the removable bit, the linux will > > actually check the ro bit. more detail information can be found from > > Surely all iSCSI discs are removable, since anyone could unplug the > network cable at any time ... - : 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 - : 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
