Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel
From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Matteo Tescione <matteo@rmnet.it>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>,
       Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
       scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 05:43 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
> Hi all,
> And sorry for intrusion, i am not a developer but i work everyday with iscsi
> and i found it fantastic.
> Altough Aoe, Fcoe and so on could be better, we have to look in real world
> implementations what is needed *now*, and if we look at vmware world,
> virtual iron, microsoft clustering etc, the answer is iSCSI.
> And now, SCST is the best open-source iSCSI target. So, from an end-user
> point of view, what are the really problems to not integrate scst in the
> mainstream kernel?

The fact that your last statement is conjecture.  It's definitely untrue
for non-IB networks, and the jury is still out on IB networks.

James


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