From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Bottomley Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:07:12 -0600 Message-ID: <1202188032.3096.196.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from accolon.hansenpartnership.com ([76.243.235.52]:49934 "EHLO accolon.hansenpartnership.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751192AbYBEFHV (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:07:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Matteo Tescione Cc: Linus Torvalds , Matt Mackall , Mike Christie , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , FUJITA Tomonori , Alan Cox On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 05:43 +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? The fact that your last statement is conjecture. It's definitely untrue for non-IB networks, and the jury is still out on IB networks. James