On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:00 +0000, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > > As for the patches I mentioned which were previously ignored for > > > improving how the current cciss SCSI code handled hot plogging, if > > > you're curious about that, check here: > > > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=120213565000426&w=4 > > > > > > A change like that becomes more important if logical drives are > > > exposed through the scsi layer. > > > > We need to think about the best way to map (expose) logical > > and physical drivers to SCSI luns. As I wrote before, I'm > > interested in how HP SCSI driver does. > > We don't neccesarily want or need to expose the physical disks. The > only exception is disks that are not part of a logical volume. If the > disks are part of a logical volume but exposed the user may shoot > themselves in the foot by destroying the firmware metadata. Exposing the underlying disks can be useful for things such as: * Finding out what is in a logical drive. * Checking and updating disk firmware. * Running smartctrl tests on disks > -- mikem > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: 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 > -- Andrew Patterson Hewlett-Packard -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
