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Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:00:49 +0200
From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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To: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] libata: rewrite SCSI host scheme to be one per ATA host
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Grant Grundler wrote:
> Data Center
> environments (not just Google's) like to track disks in many different
> ways, including the SCSI identifiers since this one "key" for physical
> location. Breaking the current mappings is going to cause some people
> a world of pain

If by SCSI identifiers you mean the Linux SCSI core's h:c:i:l, then
remember that these are scsi-core internal artifacts without any meaning
to lower and upper layers whatsoever, including userspace.  (Exception:
 The c:i:l part has some significance with SCSI Parallel Interface
attached hardware.)

> since they will need to manually build (and integrate)
> old->new maps of the SCSI identifiers.

Stock udev already provides mapping according to actually useful
identifiers (if the respective transport provides them: persistent and
unique identifiers of targets and logical units).
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Stefan Richter
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