Oh dear, christmas/yule and all ignore the old bad patches in the previous mail and use these instead sorry for the confusion I recently switched to a different directory for the tgtd sources and didnt realize i was still defaulting to the old tgtd directory with an ancient patch. regards ronnie sahlberg On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:38 PM, ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Tomo, List > > Please find attached a patch to tgtadm to allow to create a new LUN > without a backingstore > if the device type is MMC. > > > This means that the LUN will be created, but no media is loaded, like > a CD/DVD which does not yet have a disk inserted. > This is useful both for scripts where you want to add media at a later > stage, but also for Jukeboxes where you probably want the initial > state of the system to be a reader without media mounted but lots of > media mounted in the storage slots, to later be moved to the reader > using the mtx command. > > > > Maybe this should also allow creation of a LUN without media for SSC too? > > > regards > ronnie sahlberg
From 33fa2ee29adfcaba5e89fcc6aecf737f4a2cfc38 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:02:06 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] TGTADM: Allow creating CD/DVD devices that do not have a backingstore
Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>
---
usr/tgtadm.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/usr/tgtadm.c b/usr/tgtadm.c
index 41e9e99..7dca0f8 100644
--- a/usr/tgtadm.c
+++ b/usr/tgtadm.c
@@ -779,7 +779,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
"allowed/supported\n", rc);
exit(EINVAL);
}
- if (!path) {
+ if (!path && dev_type != TYPE_MMC) {
eprintf("'backing-store' option "
"is necessary\n");
exit(EINVAL);
--
1.7.3.1
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