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Date:      Tue, 18 May 2010 17:59:05 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mj@feral.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: going rogue: incorporating REPORT_LUNS into the SCSI probe sequence
Message-ID:  <76ECB3BB-6862-4DCE-8CC9-35ED1BC70BD2@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <4BF19453.8090801@feral.com>
References:  <4BF19453.8090801@feral.com>

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On May 17, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> This one is a bit rougher than the others, but I'd like to encourage =
some discussion about this.
>=20
> The problems presented by not using REPORT LUNS have been getting =
uglier and uglier. Any kind of sparse lun arrangement for large JBODs or =
RAID units just makes life very painful.
>=20
> These changes manage REPORT LUNS for devices > SPC2, and even manage =
changes in the list. These changes do *not* address the edge case of =
having no attached LUN 0 (which has been known to happen- it's not =
illegal).

Under what circumstance is it not illegal?  I thought that in SPI it was =
always illegal.  Granted, FC and other protocols might be different, =
hence my curiosity.

Scott




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