Persistent Reserve In: READ FULL STATUS response

[Kevin D Butt]

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Dave,
I agree.  It appears that the PRIn (REad Full Status) is not behaving 
correctly. 
Kevin D. Butt
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"David Peterson" <dpeterso at Brocade.COM> 
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Persistent Reserve In: READ FULL STATUS response
>From a trace I see the following:
PR In (Read Reservations)
-	   PRgeneration = 00 00 00 00h
-	   Additional Length = 00 00 00 00h
Good Status
* Given this response data there is no reservation held
PR In (Read Full Status)
-	   no data returned
Good Status
* SPC-4 5.6.6.4 states:
An application client may send a PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with READ 
FULL STATUS service action to receive all information about registrations 
and the persistent reservation, if any.
In response to a PERSISTENT RESERVE IN command with READ FULL STATUS 
service action the device server shall report the current PRgeneration 
value (see 6.13.2) and, for every I_T nexus that is currently registered, 
the
following information:
a) The registered reservation key;
b) Whether the I_T nexus is a persistent reservation holder;
c) If the I_T nexus is a persistent reservation holder, the scope and type 
of the persistent reservation;
d) The relative target port identifier identifying the target port of the 
I_T nexus; and
e) A TransportID identifying the initiator port of the I_T nexus. 
My understanding is that although no reservation is held, the PRgeneration 
value (00 00 00 00h in this case) shall be returned and the Additional 
Length field shall be set to zero.
Appears this particular target implementation is not following the 
standard per Service Action=Read Full Status in that it simply returns no 
data if no reservation is held.
Comments?
?Dave