From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] mdadm: SCSI enclosure based array Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 13:01:43 +1100 Message-ID: <87d1u7b188.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> References: <1449015933-255689-1-git-send-email-songliubraving@fb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1449015933-255689-1-git-send-email-songliubraving@fb.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com, shli@fb.com, Song Liu List-Id: linux-raid.ids --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain On Wed, Dec 02 2015, Song Liu wrote: > These patches by Dan Williams enable creating RAID array based on > SCSI enclosures. Is there any background reading available so I can have some idea what these patches are supposed to do. I have a vague idea what an "enclosure" is but I didn't know that Linux knew about them. Is there a link to the LWN article about them or some other useful documentation? "git grep -i enclosur Documentation/" didn't show anything likely to be useful. And what is "/dev/disk/by-slot"?? I've never come across it before and google doesn't help much. Just these patches and http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/93809 which doesn't seem very conclusive. So currently I am not able to review these patches. NeilBrown --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJWcMYHAAoJEDnsnt1WYoG5xo0P/2bHpktAWFkSSWTPAiCuibfr xt5/kmr2rP70Jljk4qJZASM7ZyJC44gwZ8XyJrl8MckdiMM8urfJ+BRXGiURWwPm X7RYOynOBKQw3gwXzrVqVS89RVjQ6K2b4XW2Mz5MrvPQ/5NbVF55qrbaf8WMNBiV aLhFXFmumeyXmcEJBWp546eagTbSftjmWT2ZB00ZV8EdIiJBsqBMo1EEdkG6+oRZ kKAhplcCJPZMTtCyf0qnP9eaD1xjBvWyCPRVNTUC+VcieJF6SF3+jDizem76czAI NODWnGgZV+Eg9L0P5anfmhC886Y0PEfxBJs6xZbHNQZxo7qL49jL6isvuVy+rfEE oC5OouIXVoWcjxyY04LjiGJfSoLHV3Kok/bVdja3Yj64LiKIuOYqaHqR0qw+faNN ciNAkDA32PVghi7w8YdCB+VAnnLGkVTqS/4cXDuqMTeK6GJNCqbEZUDW1qFhXDfg LPqv749ucac5ShHpWwi/xitgV35PaxOLQ11ALbE6w5Xg13ZPfEmpcXXXSFeMLAkM 0gkCcTnwxXJjvpPzhU9mmTi8OUF7J/IrQTc6O3C9vBUQYk8TVOcnXlxj3Ah6QrfB bWkyk3lMKcV7Clbw++ot1h9qyoiadoQ+U8qZkTj4F9HuvN00EV8T5nXU4+7kir8m QVOMd/k9DlNrsSLy1rvl =eZf+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--