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| From | Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 3/6] sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API |
| Date | 2015-10-15 17:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <qjSNk-2aP-21@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qjPFL-68P-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <qjPFL-68P-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <qjSNk-2aP-23@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 08:30:50AM -0700, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Can you explain why this functionality has been added to the sd driver > instead of the SCSI core ? Aren't persistent reservations a concept that > applies to all SCSI device types ? In theory it does. In practice it's only used by disks/arrays and tapes, and as tapes don't have a struct block_device this isn't going to be useful for them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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[PATCH 3/6] sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-10-15 14:20 +0200 Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 3/6] sd: implement the Persistent Reservation API Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2015-10-15 17:40 +0200
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