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RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch 0/7] pvSCSI driver

To: "Jun Kamada" <kama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [Patch 0/7] pvSCSI driver
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:56:32 +1100
Cc: Steven Smith <steven.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Hi James-san and Steven-san,
> 
> Thank you for your comments.
> 
> In order to avoid my misunderstanding, could you teach me what the
> 'munging' is? It means to reject the some SCSI commands or to modify
> inside of the command(CDB) and response(SENSE) on the backend ?
> 

:)

In this context it just means modifying the packets 'on the fly' in a
way that we'd probably rather not. I guess it's kind of a NAT for
SCSI... maybe we'd call it SAT for Scsi Address Translation :)

James


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