From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Reed Subject: Re: generating a Linux WWN? Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:33:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4703B62D.3020002@sgi.com> References: <660594.90733.qm@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <47032CDA.1020303@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:53592 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751341AbXJCPdE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:33:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47032CDA.1020303@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: ltuikov@yahoo.com, James.Smart@Emulex.Com, linux-scsi Jeff Garzik wrote: > Luben Tuikov wrote: >> Do you mean: >> "The admin will have the option to SPECIFY(SET) a WWN, should they >> so desire." >> OR do you mean: >> "The admin will have the option to HAVE THE KERNEL auto-generate a WWN, >> should they so desire." > > Both. It is up to admin policy to decide if they wish to use the > available board's WWN (if present/valid), manually apportion WWNs, or > whether the kernel's generation algo is fine with them. Could the reassignment of a board's WWN present any security issues? A board which is allowed to access only some targets is now allowed to access others. I would assume that most sites that care about security would have other measures in place to guard against this, but it's still worth pondering. Mike > > Jeff > > > - > 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