Re: iSCSI:reservations

["Mallikarjun C." <cbm@rose.hp.com>]

> T10 is going to discuss this issue on a Friday conference call for both
> iSCSI and SRP (InfiniBand) and should have a recommendation for you
> then.  

I would like that.  The reservations discussion is also currently 
scheduled on CAP agenda for the upcoming Dallas T10 meetings 
starting March 11.

For a discussion of why reservations must surive session failures/logouts,
please see the discussion paper at:

ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.02/02-078r1.pdf
--
Mallikarjun

Mallikarjun Chadalapaka
Networked Storage Architecture
Network Storage Solutions Organization
Hewlett-Packard MS 5668 
Roseville CA 95747

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elliott, Robert" <Robert.Elliott@compaq.com>
To: <ips@ece.cmu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 8:05 AM
Subject: RE: iSCSI:reservations


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julian Satran [mailto:Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 1:24 AM
> To: ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: iSCSI:reservations
> 
> > We had long discussions on the reservation-clearing being
> > done (or not) at session close (FCP does this). 
> >  We concluded that it is probably a thing that should be
> > handled at SCSI level (it would be wrong for the transport
> > to mes-up SCSI state) and perhaps we should only state that
> > an indication about session failure should be passed to
> > SCSI.  Mallikarjun and Randy have a set of good arguments 
> > for not doing this implicitly that they would probably
> > want to share them with you. 
> >
> > This is only a warning that this item in the clearing
> > appendix is going to change as this issue was debated
> > earlier on the list. 
> >
> > Comments? 
> 
> T10 is going to discuss this issue on a Friday conference call for both
> iSCSI and SRP (InfiniBand) and should have a recommendation for you
> then.  Anyone interested is welcome to join the discussion.
> 
> Here is the meeting announcement posted to the T10 mailing list:
> 
> * From the T10 Reflector (t10@t10.org), posted by:
> * "Simpson, Cris" <cris.simpson@intel.com>
> *
> The SRP WG will discuss reservation issues for at least the first hour
> of
> this Friday's conference call. As the issues are of wide concern to the
> SCSI community, all interested parties are invited to participate.
> 
> References:
> "Response to T10 Letter Ballot comments on SRP", 
> Comment IBM050, Pages 37 and 104
> ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.01/01-328r3.pdf 
> Rob Elliott, "Clearing effects of logouts on different protocols", 
> t10 mailing list, 21 Feb 2002,
> <78AF3C342AEAEF4BA33B35A8A15668C60296DB2C@cceexc17.americas.cpqcorp.net>
> Mallikarjun Chadalapaka, "Reservations & Nexus"
> ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/document.02/02-078r0.pdf
> 
> 
> Conference call information:
> March 1 0900-1100 PST
> 1.888.316.5901 or +1.617.801.9781
> If you are not an SRP 'regular', please send 
> mail to mailto:cris.simpson@intel.com?subject=Mar_1_passcode for the 
> passcode. (This will ensure that I schedule enough lines.)
> Cris
> 
> ---
> Rob Elliott, Compaq Server Storage
> Robert.Elliott@compaq.com
> 
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