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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: ptb@it.uc3m.es
Cc: Justin Cormack <justin@street-vision.com>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ENBD for 2.5.64
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:40:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E81132C.9020506@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200303252053.h2PKrRn09596@oboe.it.uc3m.es>

Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> "Justin Cormack wrote:"
>>And I am intending to write an iscsi client sometime, but it got
>>delayed. The server stuff is already available from 3com.
> 
> 
> Possibly, but ENBD is designed to fail :-). And networks fail.
> What will your iscsi implementation do when somebody resets the
> router? All those issues are handled by ENBD. ENBD breaks off and
> reconnects automatically. It reacts right to removable media.


Yeah, iSCSI handles all that and more.  It's a behemoth of a 
specification.  (whether a particular implementation implements all that 
stuff correctly is another matter...)

BTW, I'm a big enbd fan :)  I like enbd for it's _simplicity_ compared 
to iSCSI.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-26  2:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1048623613.25914.14.camel@lotte>
2003-03-25 20:53 ` [PATCH] ENBD for 2.5.64 Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-26  2:40   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-03-26  5:55     ` Matt Mackall
2003-03-26  6:31       ` Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-26  6:48         ` Matt Mackall
2003-03-26  7:05           ` Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-26  6:59       ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-26 13:58         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-26  7:31       ` Lincoln Dale
2003-03-26  9:59         ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-03-26 10:18           ` Andrew Morton
2003-03-26 13:49         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-03-26 16:09         ` Matt Mackall
     [not found]         ` <5.1.0.14.2.20030327085031.04aa7128@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com>
2003-03-26 22:40           ` Matt Mackall
2003-03-28 11:19   ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-30 20:48     ` Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-26 22:16 Lincoln Dale
2003-03-26 22:56 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-03-26 23:21   ` Lincoln Dale
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-26 22:16 Lincoln Dale
2003-03-26 22:32 ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.10.10303261422580.25072-100000@master.linux-ide .org>
2003-03-26 23:03   ` Lincoln Dale
2003-03-26 23:39     ` Andre Hedrick
     [not found] <5.1.0.14.2.20030327083757.037c0760@mira-sjcm-3.cisco.com>
2003-03-26 22:02 ` Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-26 23:49   ` Lincoln Dale
2003-03-27  0:08     ` Peter T. Breuer
2003-03-25 17:27 Peter T. Breuer

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