From 74e293d282c6340e302103b2ac2d9c0c57562b2c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bart Van Assche Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:27:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] scst/README: Add a note about how ESX works with t10_dev_id git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/scst/svn/trunk@3888 d57e44dd-8a1f-0410-8b47-8ef2f437770f --- scst/README | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scst/README b/scst/README index 631d1ff35..89e7644f6 100644 --- a/scst/README +++ b/scst/README @@ -945,6 +945,10 @@ 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