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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6] pvSCSI (SCSI pass through) driver

Hi Stephen-san,

Thank you for your helpful information. I will access the information.

Thanks,

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:33:50 +0000
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 11:05 +0900, Jun Kamada wrote:
> 
> > We also recognize that more sophisticated interface is needed. WWPN can
> > be used for FC-SCSI, however pure SCSI does not have any unique ID.
> > Do you have any idea?
> 
> Well... Linux does try to use address-by-content to some extent, but
> that's going to be fragile here, as well.  It's complicated even more by
> the difficulty of having potential multipath in the mix.
> 
> libblkid has some helpful functions for certain cases, but that doesn't
> help at all for the bootstrap cases when you're dealing with completely
> unformatted disks.
> 
> The libvirt folks have been wrestling with some of the same questions
> recently, libvirt-devel may have some useful discussion.
> 
> --Stephen
> 
> 

Jun Kamada
Linux Technology Development Div.
Server Systems Unit
Fujitsu Ltd.
kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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