linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvme: Mark external NVMe devices as removable

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Message-ID: <20220113161204.GA3230285@dhcp-10-100-145-180.wdc.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jan 2022 08:12:04 -0800
From:   Keith Busch <kbusch@...nel.org>
To:     Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@...onical.com>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, axboe@...com, sagi@...mberg.me,
        Rajat Jain <rajatja@...gle.com>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvme: Mark external NVMe devices as removable

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 02:39:02PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:03 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 08:50:33PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > > USB thumb drives also use this flag, so I am not sure why it's not
> > > applicable to NVMe?
> >
> > They shouldn't report this flag and might need fixing.
> 
> So what should we do? Introduce a different flag but with identical
> usage for external USB and NVMe storages?

What's the user visible result with this flag set? Does some rule
automatically mount a 'removable' block device's filesystem partitions
to something like /media/?