Tomo, Thanks for merging the other patches. Did you come to a conclusion on this one? Arne Am Dienstag, den 09.06.2009, 18:23 +0200 schrieb Arne Redlich: > The dummy RAID controller serves 2 purposes: > (1) commands that are addressed to an inexistent LUN are redirected to it > (2) it provides a LUN 0 by default which is required by the SCSI spec > . > > (1) is obviously wrong because instead of "wrong lun" "invalid cdb" is returned > to the initiator. A "shadow LUN" of type NO_LUN is now used for this purpose. > This LU uses bs_null as backingstore, so there are no idle threads spawned for > it (in contrast to the previous dummy raid controller at LUN 0). > > (2) confuses some OSes / users (Windows prompts for drivers, > Solaris repeatedly tries to online the LU, but does not succeed). > > It's now the user's responsibility to attach a LU to LUN 0 to adhere to the > SCSI spec (Solaris / WinXP don't insist, Linux does!). > > Signed-off-by: Arne Redlich <arne.redlich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
