From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754354Ab3ARByN (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:54:13 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.171]:50597 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753350Ab3ARByM (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:54:12 -0500 Message-ID: <50F8AB33.5010003@vlnb.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 20:53:55 -0500 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120313 Mnenhy/0.8.5 Thunderbird/3.1.20 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Steinmetz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: LIO - the broken iSCSI target implementation References: <1358385543.7040.54.camel@host028-server-9.lan.domdv.de> In-Reply-To: <1358385543.7040.54.camel@host028-server-9.lan.domdv.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:QGJ8JCNvFe6tdf2Qp9JimtKG9f2yN4OxYc7R0v9rGuV YnECtEuf+iqtVXy9EvUwtLMGTN/RzdpGJo7iWRXaJLR5IWYWDk ci9UJ/Vwpta52P4UAtGD8aZdJTG5k3pCucNkP2CSzZSDhuodsu QmF4wZU8KfgRy+vBTLPqmfUXcSAFoRvF4rn/ctlzx4jYoKXO5W qXdRuZXi4AE1zT3oSnkf68A88lB7NeEDzjiC4CIIVB1sKsssJ2 +6iUEUjSscVQB3iLxz95nX38TPkbzjQh5efmqlyLrFnL6NRNqv 91HBO1+83uhkXRA/kBPWyP9D+3mZU8LRw/OKJmYhD4tdr4MqYC zt6YCaqdM7vzhFwaVwwY= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Steinmetz, on 01/16/2013 08:19 PM wrote: > Thus, lio (http://www.linux-iscsi.org/) seemed to be the politically and > technically favoured solution. [...] > The fun part of it was that I finally ended up using SCST - which was > refrained from kernel inclusion for technical reasons beyond my > knowledge. No, it was purely political. There has never been any technical argument why LIO is better. And can not be. Thanks, Vlad