Bug 427259

ping? any comments?

Does the sg_scan do the same from sg3_utils pkg?

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/sg3_utils

don't have my scsi stuff hooked atm so can't try myself.

Another related pkg is:

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/scsi-target-utils

thou it seems to be bit more specific.

The problem with a SCSI rescan tool is that there may be issues in scanning if 
you are attached to an RAID controller whereas the loop is handled somewhat 
differently from a traditional JBOD. Forcing the Linux SCSI Layer to pick up 
these disk devices (LUNs) mapped from the RAID controller will not reveal any 
new devices.

Another problem with an automatic scanning is if your LUN mappings change and 
you have some of the devices already mounted. Let us say SCSI Device <0 0 0 0> 
is assigned a major/minor by sd_mod and udev allocates /dev/sda to it. You 
format and mount /dev/sda to /mnt and use it.

If the LUN mapping changes where now the SCSI Device is mapped as <0 0 0 1> and 
you invoke a rescan, forgetting that the older mapping is still mounted under 
the previously assigned major/minor/sda identifiers the /mnt mounted path is 
now stuck and in some cases using an umount operation will have it get stuck in 
flushing all cached pages and post a lot of SCSI I/O errors 
in /var/log/messages.

In a logical case, you would know that the mapping changes but in some, such as 
in LSI mpt fusion drivers, by default they enable hot pluggable support and if 
a path goes down (unknowingly to you and may later come back up) it has been 
known to cause some severe damage.

The SCSI Layer on Linux 2.6 supports hot plugging, it is the Host Bus Adapters 
(HBAs) that usually do not, and I say for good reason.

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469628 ***

*** Bug 469628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Dan, you didn't know that # is 427259 smaller than 469628 like is   date 2008-01-02 earlier to 2008-11-03?

Sure I know what bug is older, but I also know what bug I have worked on and closed earlier.

The rescan script is already included in the sg3_utils package.

> Sure I know what bug is older, but I also know what bug I have worked 
> on and closed earlier.

All right, Danny.

(In reply to comment #9)

> The rescan script is already included in the sg3_utils package.  


$ file $(rpm -q sg3_utils -l|grep bin)|grep -c -v ELF
0

Is it?

Group: Applications/System
Source0: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-%{version}.tgz
Source1: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh-%{rescan_version}
URL: http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)

It appears to be added into f10 branch but has not been built yet. Could you look this to the end as all it appears to need is rebuilding and testing?

http://koji.fedoraproject.org:80/koji/buildinfo?buildID=68330

/usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh

How about renaming it to /usr/sbin/scsi-rescan  ? Now it's not obvious name and that makes it harder to find with scsi<tab> command helping.

sg3_utils-1.26-2.fc10 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 10.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/sg3_utils-1.26-2.fc10

(In reply to comment #14)
> /usr/bin/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
> 
> How about renaming it to /usr/sbin/scsi-rescan  ? Now it's not obvious name and
> that makes it harder to find with scsi<tab> command helping.  

I think I will keep the upstream name and create a symlink with more obvious name.

Did you already make the symlink? This entry is CLOSED and will be forgotten if you don't do it now. Also, imo the .sh extension is not needed.

(In reply to comment #17)
> Did you already make the symlink? This entry is CLOSED and will be forgotten if
> you don't do it now. Also, imo the .sh extension is not needed.  

The symlink is planned for next release. Could you open a new bug to track it? At least OpenSuSE distributes the script under its original name (rescan-scsi-bus.sh) and I will also use it as the primary name.

imo such tiny thing doesn't need own bug. put a post-it paper to your monitor frame for it :)

i requested the upstream to rename the whole beast.

sg3_utils-1.26-2.fc10 has been pushed to the Fedora 10 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.