Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] - Fusion-MPT much faster as module | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 22:07:43 -0600 |
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On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 13:35 -0700, Moore, Eric Dean wrote: > I still wonder if the SPI transport layer will work for RAID volumes. > Do you know if the spi transport layer supports dv on hidden devices in a > raid volume? > Meaning these hidden physical disks will not been seen by the block layer, > however > spi transport layer would be aware so dv can be performed those hidden disk?
I recall this being discussed, and the conclusion being that we could allow a flag to bar attachment of the ULD. So the underlying discs would have a scsi_device but no sd device. Then the spi_transport class will work fine on them but the user wouldn't be able to open them or mount anything.
James
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