On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0800, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Main reasons being that > a) it's most commonly on FC where you end up having thousands of LUNs; > SAS domains are of finite size and you'd need to string quite a few SAS > expanders together to achieve a similar setup. And iSCSI is ... well. > b) FC already has the required infrastructure in place where you easily > can suppress a target scan, making the patch really trivial. > > So rather than trying to come up with a generic solution and an overly > complicated patch I opted for the simpler version :-)
Having a global disable just for all FC is still odd. Either you do it for all devices and always initiate a manual scan, or you need to do it on a per-host basis somehow. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
