From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: FUJITA Tomonori Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:38:00 +0900 Message-ID: <20080205223607E.tomof@acm.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mo11.iij4u.or.jp ([210.138.174.79]:55959 "EHLO mo11.iij4u.or.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753867AbYBENis (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 08:38:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: matteo@rmnet.it Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, mpm@selenic.com, michaelc@cs.wisc.edu, vst@vlnb.net, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nab@linux-iscsi.org, James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.ukfujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:43:10 +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? Currently, the best open-source iSCSI target implemenation in Linux is Nicholas's LIO, I guess.