From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: best userspace iscsi target lib? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:43:43 -0500 Message-ID: <49197DFF.9080901@garzik.org> References: <4918B5B2.8050003@garzik.org> <4919796F.1020300@vlnb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:60792 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756053AbYKKMnq (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 07:43:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4919796F.1020300@vlnb.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Cc: linux-scsi , Bart Van Assche , scst-devel Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Can someone recommend an open source userspace library that enables >> one to implement a userspace iSCSI target? > > Check SCST (http://scst.sf.net). Few weeks ago scst_local module added > to it ability to create user space target drivers using regular sg/bsg > interface. It's at the moment under active development, so still has a > number of issues, but they shouldn't prevent you from evaluating it. You > can find the code in the SVN using command: > > $ svn co https://scst.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scst/trunk > > But there is a plenty of open source iSCSI targets in the world, > including one fully implemented in user space, so I wonder, what's wrong > with them to create another one? None of them are massively distributed OSD and SBC targets, which are part of my experiments in distributed computing :) Jeff