On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:38:31PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > Some devices come online in write protected state and switch to > read-write once they are ready to process I/O requests. That is really weird. What kind of devices are these? > Note that per-partition ro settings are lost on revalidate. This has > been broken for at least a decade and it will require major surgery to > fix. To my knowledge nobody has complained about being unable to make > partition read-only settings stick through a revalidate. So hopefully > this patch will suffice as a simple fix for stable. Should we warn when we lost these settings on a revalidate? I have to say I don't like the tristate too much - it seems to allow setting a hardware write protected device writable again by user interfaction, right? Should we just have a hardware and a user policy field that are separate instead?
