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On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 08:24:18AM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
> Ah. Far better.
> What about delegating FORMAT UNIT to the control LUN, and not
> implementing it for the individual disk LUNs?
> That would make an even stronger case for having a control LUN;
> with that there wouldn't be any problem with having to synchronize
> across LUNs etc.

It sounds to me like NVMe might be a much better model for this drive
than SCSI, btw :)