Tour the Linux generic SCSI driver

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"During the communication between a host and storage, a host generally acts as a SCSI initiator. In computer storage, the SCSI initiator is the endpoint that initiates a SCSI session, meaning it sends a SCSI command. The storage often acts as a SCSI target which receives and processes SCSI commands. The SCSI target waits for the initiator's commands and then provides required input/output data transfers.

"The target usually provides the initiators one or more logical unit numbers (LUN). In computer storage, a LUN is simply the number assigned to a logical unit. A logical unit is a SCSI protocol entity, the only one which may be addressed by the actual I/O operations. Each SCSI target provides one or more logical units; it does not perform I/O as itself, but on behalf of a specific logical unit.

"In a storage area, a LUN often represents a SCSI disk on which a host can perform a read and write operation. Figure 1 shows how the SCSI client/server model works."

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