From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generic SCSI Target Middle Level for Linux (SCST) with target drivers Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:22:13 +0100 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040617122213.GA30943@infradead.org> References: <40D075DA.2000007@vlnb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:43178 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266466AbUFQMWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:22:16 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40D075DA.2000007@vlnb.net> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 08:31:22PM +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > In the current version 0.9.1 SCST looks to be quite stable (for beta) > and useful. The same is for Qlogic 2200/2300 target driver. Only 2.4 > kernels currently supported, but update for 2.6 is coming soon. No > kernel patches are necessary. Tested on i386 only, but should work on > any other supported by Linux platform. > > More information, including the source code and detail documentation, > could be found on http://scst.sf.net. > > Any comments would be appreciated. The code looks pretty neat to me, there's a few issues I'd like to see addresses but that doesn't make sense before the 2.4 support is dropped and there's an actual LLDD for 2.6. But I think for most interesting scenarios in the storage virtualization world your driver is pretty much useless because it wants to dispatch directly to a scsi device and doesn't go through the block layer. So no fancy volume managers/etc there to make interesting storage virtualization boxes.