On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 12:57:00PM -0400, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Martin W. Schlining III wrote: > >Does Linux support 64-bit SCSI LUN addressing? > > No. Linux supports 32 bit LUNs. > > >Suppose I have a system > >that can create SCSI LUNs that are greater than 2TB using a block size > >of 512 bytes and can accept 16 byte CDBs, can I use this LUN with a 2.6 > >series Linux kernel? > > There is no relationship between 64 bit LUNS (which, > for example, support a hierarchy of up to 4, 16 bit LUNs) > and the ability of a logical unit (LU) (e.g. a disk) to > support 64 bit logical block addressing (LBA). > > Christoph's reply more accurately addresses the question > I think you were trying to ask... Yeah, people tend to say LUNs when they mean storage devices a lot, so I've started to look over the slight misuses if things make sense otherwise. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
