Re: iSCSI: 2.2.6. Naming & mapping

[Peter Johansson <PJohansson@ACM.org>]

At 11:37 AM 9/17/00, John Hufferd/San Jose/IBM wrote:

>As specified by Jim Hafner, there is no need and we should not  do what 
>you suggest.  We have talked this through before, many, many times, and 
>the answer has always come out the same.  PLEASE, lets not go there again.

Jim Hafner's observation (that mandatory presence of a unique ID, on a per 
LU basis, in EVPD appears to be destined for adoption within SPC-2) only 
reinforces that part of the discussion with which I already agree. It is 
desirable to have command set-dependent methods to determine the unique ID 
for a LU. Matter closed?

It might also be desirable to have transport-dependent mechanisms to 
specify unique IDs for those LUs whose existence is discoverable by 
transport-dependent methods. I think this is still open to discussion.

There's not much I can respond to in your comment above, John, because "... 
we have talked this through before ..." doesn't constitute much of a 
technical argument.




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