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authorAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2011-10-31 20:19:02 +0000
committerAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>2011-10-31 20:19:02 +0000
commitcc6cbe141a20f6d876b161b60af38d93935bfa85 (patch)
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dm table: add always writeable feature
Add a target feature flag DM_TARGET_ALWAYS_WRITEABLE to indicate that a target does not support read-only mode. The initial implementation of the thin provisioning target uses this. Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/md/dm-table.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/md/dm-table.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-table.c b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
index 2ec3482e942a..9917141729ef 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-table.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-table.c
@@ -774,6 +774,12 @@ int dm_table_add_target(struct dm_table *t, const char *type,
t->singleton = 1;
}
+ if (dm_target_always_writeable(tgt->type) && !(t->mode & FMODE_WRITE)) {
+ DMERR("%s: target type %s may not be included in read-only tables",
+ dm_device_name(t->md), type);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
tgt->table = t;
tgt->begin = start;
tgt->len = len;