From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267319AbUJNSzN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:55:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266838AbUJNSwS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:52:18 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([81.187.226.98]:5382 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267319AbUJNSkJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:40:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 19:39:48 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: James Bottomley Cc: Christoph Hellwig , mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List Subject: Re: cciss update [2/2] fixes for Steeleye Lifekeeper Message-ID: <20041014183948.GA12325@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , James Bottomley , mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net, Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel , SCSI Mailing List References: <20041013212253.GB9866@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net> <20041014083900.GB7747@infradead.org> <1097764660.2198.11.camel@mulgrave> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1097764660.2198.11.camel@mulgrave> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:37:32AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > I don't think so ... it's a volume you know exists but you can't get > access to (in a shared storage configuration). In SCSI we have two > examples of this now: Such a volume has been configured and set up, and although it's still ugly I'd say it's okay. But the patch also adds one gendisk per controller even if no volume is set up.