On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/02/12 21:16, James Bottomley wrote: > > Could someone please explain to me why you can't simply fix virtio-blk? > > I dont think that virtio-scsi will replace virtio-blk everywhere. For non-scsi > block devices, image files or logical volumes virtio-blk seems to be the right > approach, I think. > > > Or would virtio-blk maintainers give a reason why they're unwilling to > > have it fixed? > > I dont consider virtio-blk broken. It just doesnt cover everything. Although I'm not sure whether that helps here: since about a year there is software present in the upstream kernel that allows to use any block device or even a file as a SCSI device. Bart. -- 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
