Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262418AbVEMPFj (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 11:05:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262425AbVEMPFj (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 11:05:39 -0400 Received: from smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.169.225]:64445 "HELO smtp105.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262401AbVEMPE3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 11:04:29 -0400 Subject: Re: several messages From: Dmitry Yusupov To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: mingz@ele.uri.edu, Guennadi Liakhovetski , FUJITA Tomonori , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , iet-dev , linux-scsi , Sander , David Hollis , Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <20050513081230.GA32546@infradead.org> References: <1416215015.20050504193114@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <1115236116.7761.19.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> <1104082357.20050504231722@dns.toxicfilms.tv> <1115305794.3071.5.camel@dhollis-lnx.sunera.com> <20050507150538.GA800@favonius> <4281C8A3.20804@vlnb.net> <1115864176.5513.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1115922732.25161.143.camel@beastie> <20050513081230.GA32546@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 08:04:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1115996656.14477.34.camel@mylaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1227 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:12 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:32:12AM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 22:16 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > > > iscsi is scsi over ip. > > > > correction. iSCSI today has RFC at least for two transports - TCP/IP and > > iSER/RDMA(in finalized progress) with RDMA over Infiniband or RNIC. And > > I think people start writing initial draft for SCTP/IP transport... > > > > >From this perspective, iSCSI certainly more advanced and matured > > comparing to NBD variations. > > It's for certainly much more complicated (in marketing speak that's usually > called advanced) but far less mature. > > If you want network storage to just work use nbd. You could tell this to school's computer class teacher... Serious SAN deployment will always be based either on FC or iSCSI for the reasons I explained before. I do not disagree, nbd is nice and simple and for sure has its own deployment space. Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/