Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754715AbYBENjE (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:39:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753891AbYBENit (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:38:49 -0500 Received: from mo11.iij4u.or.jp ([210.138.174.79]:55959 "EHLO mo11.iij4u.or.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753867AbYBENis (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:38:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:38:00 +0900 To: matteo@rmnet.it Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mpm@selenic.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, vst@vlnb.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nab@linux-iscsi.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel From: FUJITA Tomonori In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20080205223607E.tomof@acm.org> X-Dispatcher: imput version 20040704(IM147) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 919 Lines: 15 On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:43:10 +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? Currently, the best open-source iSCSI target implemenation in Linux is Nicholas's LIO, I guess. -- 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/