linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sd: do not set changed flag on all unit attention conditions

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Message-ID: <20120717163612.GA15995@infradead.org>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:36:12 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sd: do not set changed flag on all unit attention
 conditions

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:11:57AM +0100, James Bottomley wrote:
> There's no such thing in the market today as a removable disk that's
> resizeable.  Removable disks are for things like backup cartridges and
> ageing jazz drives.  Worse: most removeable devices today are USB card
> readers whose standards compliance varies from iffy to non existent.
> Resizeable disks are currently the province of storage arrays.

The virtual disks exported by aacraid are both marked removable and
can be resized.

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