On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:49:26PM -0500, Mike Christie wrote: > > 2) Unless it's serialised (in which case it still takes two hours to > > boot), you lose drive numbering. > > Drive numbering refers to the bus, target numbering right? No, I mean sda, sdb, sdc, etc. > Currently > when you scan a host you are serialized at the host level because of the > host->scan_mutex aren't we? So for each host addition hotplug event you > can scan that host with the command above, and then you can scan all > your hosts in parallel and the drive numbering is not affected is it? I > thought, your patch is basically creating a kernel thread and running > scan host selected, which grabs the scan_mutex, with all wild cards. > What I suggested ends up calling scan host selected with all wild cards > but from userspace. The trick is to avoid adding the sdevs to sysfs until all prior sdevs have been added. I don't see a good way to do that from userspace. - : 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
