Re: Can VPD Unit Serial Number be persistent?

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On 07/25/2014 04:46 PM, Lee Duncan wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I am creating an iSCSI LUNs using iblock back end storage.
> 
> I notice that my VPD Unit Serial Number is different each time my server
> reboots. That does not seem right.

I take it by the lack of response that this is either an issue that has
been discussed before, or one that nobody else cares about?

In my case, this bug means that when my target nodes reboot and I get
new Serial Numbers the cluster using that node as part of a logical
volume cannot find it.

I will work on a patch for submission.

> 
> Is this a bug?
> 
> I looked back through the list archives and saw that you do not allow
> this attribute to be set at back store creation time, but there is an
> option to tell it not generate a WWN. (using generate_wwn=false)
> 
> But when I do that I get no VPD Page 0x83 data at all, and the name of
> the resulting target, once connected, in /dev/disk/by-id is scsi-1LIO-ORG.
> 
> It does not seem right that the identity of the disc changes each time
> the server is rebooted.
> 

-- 
Lee Duncan
SUSE Labs
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