2008/235 [SCSI Block Disk Provider for COMSTAR]

[John Forte]

Glenn Skinner wrote:
>     Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:11:06 -0700 (PDT)
>     From: John Forte <jforte at sac.sfbay.sun.com>
>     Subject: SCSI Block Disk Provider for COMSTAR [PSARC/2008/235
> 	    FastTrack]
>
>     ...
>     1. Summary
>
>     This command (sbdadm) and associated driver (sbd) will provide
>     SCSI block disk device support for COMSTAR (PSARC/2007/523).  The
>     command sbdadm(1M) will provide support for creating logical units
>     utilizing any file or raw block device as the backing store.
>     Logical units created with sbdadm will be available to the COMSTAR
>     framework and can be further managed and provisioned to storage
>     clients in the network using stmfadm(1M).  Logical units created
>     with sbdadm(1M) are persistent across reboots.
>
> How is persistence accomplished?  That is, where and how is the state
> stored?  I didn't see any mention of that in the interface table.
>
>   
The specific library interfaces are not listed in the interface table 
but the support is provided by libstmf. The interfaces that provide the 
support are:

stmfGetProviderData()
stmfSetProviderData()

- John