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From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
Subject: Re: Re: about scsi_hostlist
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 23:13:02 -0600
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On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:48:22PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > basically, an iscsi target tell clients how many scsi devices it has, then 
> 
> Thats broken (like the word wrap on your mailer btw)
> 
> How many scsi devices it has _when_. Controllers and disks are all hot
> pluggable. 

iSCSI has notification/discovery events. There's no reason the target
side of iSCSI can't be completely userspace and can interface with
hotplug. It wants per-device configuration anyway for access control
and authentication.

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