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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] TCM/LIO v4.0.0-rc6 for 2.6.37-rc6
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chetan loke, on 12/18/2010 10:13 PM wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@vlnb.net> wrote:
>>
>> In this regard it looks to be a good idea to freeze accepting both LIO
>> and SCST until the end of the next year and then choose one with the
>> biggest activity in the related mailing lists, not counting me and
>> NicholasB.
> 
> Why wait till the end of the next year? What I proposed earlier was
> 'to review at the architecture level'. If folks don't agree to it then
> this email drama will never
> stop. Once the review starts we can decide on a common baseline to
> benchmark both the stacks. I'm more than willing to test/benchmark
> ESX(front-end)/SCST/LIO(back-end) combo. I'm sure there will be others
> who would be willing to spend some of their time for this cause to
> validate claims made by both the communities. We can then publish all
> the results so that others can reproduce them.

This will be exactly what we need: an open and fair comparison. But the
problem is that James doesn't want any comparisons. He doesn't consider
them important. Only personality of the code submitter is important for
James.

Vlad