From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: Persistent Reservation Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:52:46 -0500 Message-ID: <455CA56E.202@torque.net> References: <216D6FA68B0F304DA93E95C5B786F2D17C8439@bart.corp.egenera.com> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:30888 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031162AbWKPRww (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:52:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <216D6FA68B0F304DA93E95C5B786F2D17C8439@bart.corp.egenera.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Jansen, Frank" Cc: djshetty , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Jansen, Frank wrote: > Dhiraj, > > In the most common case, persistent reservations are stored with the > device, such as the storage array. Note that not all devices > implement/support persistent reservations and there are cases where the > reservations are stored elsewhere, which tends to be the approach in > virtualizing environments. The linux SCSI subsystem doesn't interact with lu persistent reservations. Last time I looked, the kernel was pretty noisy when a RESERVATION CONFLICT status was received, even via a sg device node. You can manipulate persistent reservations from the user space with sg_persist in sg3_utils package. Device support for persistent reservations is improving, Fujitsu SCSI disks have had it for some time. I noticed that the Seagate 15K.5 series support those commands while the 15K.4 series and earlier didn't. Doug Gilbert >> -----Original Message----- >> From: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org >> [mailto:linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of djshetty >> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 7:27 AM >> To: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org >> Subject: Persistent Reservation >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I had a doubt. In order to persist the reservation we need to >> store some information like reservation keys, scope, type of >> reservation etc. >> >> Where exactly are such information stored and by whom ? >> >> Regards, >> Dhiraj >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Persistent-Reservation-tf2642680.html#a7376789 >> Sent from the linux-scsi mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> >> - >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe >> linux-scsi" in the body of a message to >> majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at >> http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >