Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] SCSI series part 2, rewrite LUN parsing

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 05:03:31PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> This is the second part of my SCSI work.  The first is still pending
> and this one is incomplete, but I still would like to get opinions
> early enough because this design directly affects the UI.
> 
> This series is half of the work that is necessary to support multiple
> LUNs behind a target.  The idea is to have two devices, "scsi-path"
> and "scsi-target", each of which provides both a SCSIDevice and a
> SCSIBus.

I don't quite understand what you mean with path here.  It doesn't
seem to map to any SAM concept, nor does it seem to be related
to traditional multipathing.

Can you explain what a path is supposed to be, and why it's called a "path"?