From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Oleksii Kurochko <olkuroch@cisco.com>,
Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
Dongsheng Yang <dongsheng.yang@easystack.cn>,
ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] block: add a hard-readonly flag to struct gendisk
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2020 09:53:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201203085339.GA17110@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <yq17dpza6nz.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
On Wed, Dec 02, 2020 at 11:04:33PM -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
>
> Hi Christoph!
>
> > - If BLKROSET is used to set a whole-disk device read-only, any
> > partitions will end up in a read-only state until the user
> > explicitly clears the flag.
>
> This no longer appears to be the case with your tweak.
True.
>
> It's very common for database folks to twiddle the read-only state of
> block devices and partitions. I know that our users will find it very
> counter-intuitive that setting /dev/sda read-only won't prevent writes
> to /dev/sda1.
What I'm worried about it is that this would be a huge change from the
historic behavior.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-03 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-29 18:19 split hard read-only vs read-only policy v2 Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/4] block: add a hard-readonly flag to struct gendisk Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-30 1:23 ` Alex Elder
2020-11-30 7:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-12-03 4:04 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-12-03 8:53 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-12-03 14:01 ` Martin K. Petersen
2020-11-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] rbd: remove the ->set_read_only method Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-30 7:56 ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-11-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 3/4] nvme: allow revalidate to set a namespace read-only Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-29 21:13 ` Chaitanya Kulkarni
2020-11-30 7:57 ` Hannes Reinecke
2020-11-29 18:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] dm: use bdev_read_only to check if a device is read-only Christoph Hellwig
2020-11-30 7:58 ` Hannes Reinecke
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