[CAM] Widening lun_id_t to 64-bits
Hannes Reinecke
hare at suse.de
Wed Dec 11 07:13:50 UTC 2013
On 12/11/2013 01:15 AM, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
[ .. ]
>
> BTW A T10 troublemaker tried to extend 8 byte LUNs to something
> longer in order to hold a proposed conglomerate LUN format.
> He did succeed in getting conglomerate LUN format in but not
> extending LUNs beyond 8 bytes. However he did get a 65th bit in,
> sort of. See the new LU_CONG bit in a standard INQUIRY
> response (spc4r36n.pdf).
>
Gnaa. And I know that troublemaker. His company has been approaching
me for conglomerate LUN support.
_This_ will get fun. And I guess I need to update the patchset to
handle this ...
Cheers,
Hannes
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