Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 May 1999 10:15:56 +0200 (CEST) | From | Simon Richter <> | Subject | Re: Removable media bug |
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> Not unless you have hot swap bays. It isnt safe to swap scsi disks between > devices on live busses. Now if you do have hot swap arrays then you do > arguably have a case - although the bus rescan you ought to request will > handle it
It should be safe, at least from a software point-of-view.
> What bug ?
The bug that the kernel assumes things which it cannot guarantee, specifically that there are no two computers on the same scsi cable, which is possible.
> If you want to flush the blocks of a disk on a umount or a mount you can do > so btw - there are ioctls for this.
You cannot rely on the user to do something to protect the integrity of his data, as he/she/it will simply forget.
Simon
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