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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: use dedicated storage for scsi_debug LUNs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 13:07:31 +0100
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On Fri, Mar 06, Martin K. Petersen wrote:

> >>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
> Olaf> Does that target code offer what scsi_debug offers, a bunch of
> Olaf> stuff listable with 'lsscsi'? The latter can be passed to
> Olaf> backstores/pscsi.
> Yes.

Indeed, with /backstores/fileio/ and /loopback/.

It would be nice if one could specify a fixed identifier for each fileio
during creation. Right now the symlinks in /dev/disk/by-*/* are all
random. Its not easily possible to map file_or_dev=$file to the
resulting SCSI device.

Olaf