LUN instantiation question

[Peter Johansson]

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* Peter Johansson <PJohansson at ACM.org>
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At 09:18 PM 3/4/2002 +0000, Ricia and Michael Banther wrote:

>Does SAM-2 support dynamic instantiation of logical units?  I've searched 
>the document, and it doesn't appear to disallow dynamic instantiation or 
>require static instantiation.  However it doesn't appear to specifically 
>support dynamic instantiation either.

My two cents worth:

SAM-2 is silent on the matter of "dynamic logical units" and doesn't really 
comprehend what such a thing would be. To wit, if an initiator has 
discovered, by some method, that LU x exists, subsequently addresses a 
command to LU x that reveals the existence of LU q and then starts to 
signal commands to LU q, the fact that LU q might or might not have existed 
five minutes ago is of no concern of SAM-2.


Regards,

Peter Johansson

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