From 114f8e8f5e0f866c697662f5184bd35e090d4886 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 04:14:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Merged revisions 3888 via svnmerge from https://vlnb@scst.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scst/trunk ........ r3888 | bvassche | 2011-10-05 12:27:25 -0400 (Wed, 05 Oct 2011) | 1 line scst/README: Add a note about how ESX works with t10_dev_id ........ git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/scst/svn/branches/2.1.0.x@3968 d57e44dd-8a1f-0410-8b47-8ef2f437770f --- scst/README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scst/README b/scst/README index b56645d2b..41a2f0599 100644 --- a/scst/README +++ b/scst/README @@ -940,6 +940,10 @@ Each vdisk_fileio's device has the following attributes in created device at creation time based on the device name and scst_vdisk_ID scst_vdisk.ko module parameter for procfs (see below) or the SCST setup_id when using the sysfs interface (see above). + Note: some initiators, e.g. VMware's ESXi, only looks at the first + eight characters of t10_dev_id. You have to make sure that these first + eight characters are unique or VMware will consider these devices as + identical. - usn - contains the virtual device's serial number of INQUIRY data. It is created at the device creation time based on the device name and