From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Chris Weiss" Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:07:01 -0600 Message-ID: <165ac690802041807r147531d8s6bb5f3a1f254bcbb@mail.gmail.com> References: <47A73C86.3060604@vlnb.net> <1202144767.3096.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A7488B.4080000@vlnb.net> <1202145901.3096.49.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1202151989.11265.576.camel@haakon2.linux-iscsi.org> <20080204224314.113afe7b@core> <47A74BAA.6080201@torque.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:46588 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751147AbYBECHD (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:07:03 -0500 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so3242987wah.23 for ; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:07:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <47A74BAA.6080201@torque.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: dougg@torque.net Cc: Alan Cox , Mike Christie , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , James Bottomley , scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , FUJITA Tomonori On Feb 4, 2008 11:30 AM, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > >> better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > >> low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with. > > > > Current ATAoE isn't. It can't support NCQ. A variant that did NCQ and IP > > would probably trash iSCSI for latency if nothing else. > > And a variant that doesn't do ATA or IP: > http://www.fcoe.com/ > however, and interestingly enough, the open-fcoe software target depends on scst (for now anyway)