[stgt] [PATCH 2/2] tgt-admin: check if device is mounted on /

FUJITA Tomonori fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp
Fri Sep 12 10:23:45 CEST 2008


On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:19:58 +0200
Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:

> FUJITA Tomonori schrieb:
> 
> (...)
> 
> >>> Thanks, sounds good. Any objection against this patch?
> >> I'm still not persuaded that it's the right approach.
> >>
> >> I.e., let's say we have a device which is always in use, but we want 
> >> tgtd to use it.
> >>
> >> With current approach, we have to start tgt-admin several times:
> >>
> >> 1) Lets start all targets:
> >>
> >> # tgt-admin -e -v
> >> Adding targets...
> >> Skipping device /dev/blah, is in use...
> >>
> >> 2) Configure the device once again, with --force:
> >> # tgt-admin --update iqn.2008-08.com.example:some.target --force
> > 
> > Why we can't do `tgt-admin -e -v --force` when we know we will use a
> > device in use?
> 
> Because then we can forcibly remove/update targets in use, skip errors etc.

Hmm, but your scenario is 'lets start all targets'? There is no
targets in use?
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