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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
To: djshetty <dhirajshetty.junk@mailnull.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some doubts in Persistent Reservation
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:02:20 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1164380540.2813.2.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7519006.post@talk.nabble.com>

On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 23:55 -0800, djshetty wrote:
>    1. Is persistent reservation applied on a target port or on a particular
> LUN connected to a target port. The SCOPE of persistent reservation says
> "Entire LOGICAL UNIT", whereas the registration is done for a target PORT.
> Hence the confusion.

For multi-ported devices it's per LUN per port (unless you specify all
target ports).

>    2. Is there any precise use of the PRGeneration key? I guessed it must be
> used for knowing whether any changes have been on the target (with regards
> to persistent reservation) since the previous command executed. 

That's the stated use in section 5.6.5.3 of SPC-3, yes.

James



      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-24 15:02 UTC|newest]

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2006-11-24  7:55 Some doubts in Persistent Reservation djshetty
2006-11-24 15:02 ` James Bottomley [this message]

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