[dm-devel] Device removal handling
Alasdair G Kergon
agk at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 15:23:43 UTC 2011
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:08:05AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> Hardware removal also necessitates bottom up removal, since the initial
That's back-to-front! You stop using a device first, then you remove it.
You really don't want to be removing devices while they are in use if you
can avoid it.
If something goes wrong and a device disappears, then yes, that disappearance
should propagate up the stack to be handled as best it can by each layer.
Alasdair
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