Long CDBs

[hafner@almaden.ibm.com]

In a recent posting, someone wrote:
>This also means that the new "object oriented" CDBs will never be able to
have
>immediate write data.

I just want to remind folks on this list that the "long CDBs" are by no
means limited to the Object-based stuff.  In fact, the first use of them
will be for read/write on block devices with greater than 2TB of data.
Many old CDBs didn't have enough room for large addresses (>4bytes).
T10 has approved a number of related proposals to address this limitation.
Some of these proposals use long cdbs.
Also keep in mind that these are approved, not just under discussion.

Jim Hafner