RE: iSCSI: Support Alias in the protocol

[Robert Snively <rsnively@Brocade.COM>]

Yes, though I lost that vote.

Aliases for this type of device identification are
only relevant in the well-defined management environment
that formulates the aliases.  Posting them in the device is
an invitation to confuse their meaning among two management
environments having access to the same set of devices.

If one administrator likes the characters in popular songs
for his names and another likes planets, wait till you find
two Venuses in the system.

The thing that computers do best is keep track of unique
numbers and associate them with convenient human oriented
symbols.  Let the architecture define the unique numbers
and the management environment relate them to human
oriented symbols.

Bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Bailey [mailto:steph@cs.uchicago.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:38 PM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: iSCSI: Support Alias in the protocol
> 
> 
> Bob,
> 
> > That we call our car Skeezix (human useable, for management
> > purposes within the tightly constrained context of our own
> > family) is non-architected information.
> 
> What's your position on the SCSI LU alias?  Do you think that was a
> bad idea too?
>