>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. We all have to do that, because the vast majority of people who are not storage engineers, and a disturbing portion of people who are, mean LU (or storage device) when they say LUN. But we shouldn't compound the problem by not pointing out the mistakes; people deserve to know there's a clearer way to say what they're trying to say. In many contexts, I have been genuinely confused as to whether a person was talking about a LUN or a LU. "LUN discovery," for example is a much simpler problem than the more general problem of LU (or volume or device) discovery. I end up having to do a meta-analysis of which language the author is most likely to be speaking. In the current discussion, we have the phrase "64-bit SCSI LUN addressing," which does sound a whole lot like it's about 64 bit LUNs. Only when you look closely do you see that decoded the other way, it makes more sense. -- Bryan Henderson IBM Almaden Research Center San Jose CA Filesystems - : 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
