Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758185AbYBDULW (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:11:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757219AbYBDULM (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:11:12 -0500 Received: from ip-224-2.sn2.eutelia.it ([83.211.224.2]:57313 "EHLO mail.retesintesi.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757424AbYBDULK convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:11:10 -0500 From: 4news@retesintesi.it Organization: S.in.te.si. srl To: scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:06:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20071123.740460) Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , Mike Christie , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , James Bottomley , Andrew Morton , FUJITA Tomonori References: <1202151989.11265.576.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802042106.11327.4news@retesintesi.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1435 Lines: 33 On luned? 4 febbraio 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So from a purely personal standpoint, I'd like to say that I'm not really > interested in iSCSI (and I don't quite know why I've been cc'd on this > whole discussion) and think that other approaches are potentially *much* > better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with. surely aoe is better than iscsi almost on performance because of the lesser protocol stack: iscsi -> scsi - ip - eth aoe -> ata - eth but surely iscsi is more a standard than aoe and is more actively used by real-world . Other really useful feature are that: - iscsi is capable to move to a ip based san scsi devices by routing that ( i've some tape changer routed by scst to some system that don't have other way to see a tape). - because it work on the ip layer it can be routed between long distance , so having needed bandwidth you can have a really remote block device spoking a standard protocol between non ethereogenus systems. - iscsi is now the cheapest san avaible. bye, marco. -- 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/