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From: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Subject: Re: iSCSI
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:25:50 -0700
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Ian Pratt wrote:
> Has anyone got any experience using the new 'open-iscsi' initiator?
> (either on Xen or native) http://www.open-iscsi.org/
> 
> We've been using the cisco iscsi stack
> http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/ for some time, but the performance
> isn't great. open-iscsi claims good performance, so it might be worth
> switching over.
>


You will need to switch sooner or later since the cisco driver as you
know it is about to die.

What help is needed in this area?

> BTW: gnbd works great, but I wish it used checksums over and above the
> ip csum / ethernet crc32. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ian
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