Garrett D'Amore wrote: > In principle this looks good, and I'm almost ready to +1 it, but I > have a few questions first: > > 1) I don't know enough about the FC protocol... will forcing target > ports to reinitialize have any negative implications for the > initiators? I'd like to understand the ramifications of any side > effects. The initiators will get a RSCN (Remote State Change Notification) from the FC switch, which will generally cause them to rediscover for any changes to the fabric, which is generally the desired behavior from the administrator issuing this command. > > 2) Are any additional privileges required for this operation? What > are the privileges needed to perform this action? I believe sys_devices is required. Reed? > > 3) Will the luxadm version of the command be Obsoleted at some point? Yes, that was the plan as noted in the PSARC 2004/291. Forcelip functionality was one of the last (perhaps the last) reason to keep luxadm around.
- John
