Hannes,

> 1) all underlying devices are exported to the OS; of course they have
> to be properly masked etc to avoid udev to latch on those devices. I
> also was under the impression that the 'no_uld_attach' should be
> sufficient here, but then that only avoids the 'sd' driver to become
> attached to it. The actual SCSI device is still visible, so one
> _might_ be tempted to use the 'sg' device and export it to things like
> qemu. Which of course should be avoided.

Well, yes. But in this case the bug report was that sg devices were no
longer available for smartmontools to monitor.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen      Oracle Linux Engineering

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