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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add a flight data recorder for scsi commands
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:32:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130828143258.GD15917@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <521DF0DA.10004@acm.org>

On Wed, 28 August 2013 14:45:14 +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> 
> Isn't this facility something that overlaps with what Wireshark can
> already do today ? Wireshark can already capture SCSI traces for
> several transport types (iSCSI, USB, ...). For other transports,
> e.g. FC, I'd prefer to see Wireshark being extended instead of
> adding more SCSI tracing mechanisms in the SCSI core.

Wireshark would be great if there was a reproducable testcase and a
developer could sit down for an afternoon and collect some traces.
But how would you deal with rare cases that require around a year to
reproduce per device and only matter when dealing with many devices?

Jörn

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-28 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20130827220325.GB7293@logfs.org>
2013-08-27 22:17 ` [RFC][PATCH] Add a flight data recorder for scsi commands Jörn Engel
2013-08-28  5:09   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2013-08-28 14:28     ` Jörn Engel
2013-08-28 12:45   ` Bart Van Assche
2013-08-28 14:32     ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2013-08-27 23:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-27 22:41   ` Jörn Engel
2013-08-28  0:34     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-08-28 14:19       ` Jörn Engel

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