From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Douglas Gilbert Subject: Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:30:18 +0100 Message-ID: <47A74BAA.6080201@torque.net> References: <1201639331.3069.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> <47A05CBD.5050803@vlnb.net> <47A7049A.9000105@vlnb.net> <1202139015.3096.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <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> Reply-To: dougg@torque.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:38527 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757050AbYBDXas (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:30:48 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20080204224314.113afe7b@core> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , James Bottomley , Vladislav Bolkhovitin , Bart Van Assche , Andrew Morton , FUJITA Tomonori , linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, scst-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Mike Christie 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/