Re: [2.6.0-test4] blocking access to mounted scsi devices

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:08:54AM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:

Hang on, that's not the way it's supposed to work.

Mount should be on partition devices (like /dev/sda1) whereas the tools
should be on whole disc devices (like /dev/sda).  I thought we'd agreed
that even opening a partition exclusively wouldn't affect the ability to
open the whole disc device (but opening the whole disc device
exclusively would block access to all partitions).

Linus accepted a patch from Neil Brown in -test4 that changes this.