From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin Subject: Re: best userspace iscsi target lib? Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:05:11 +0300 Message-ID: <49199117.2050808@vlnb.net> References: <4918B5B2.8050003@garzik.org> <4919796F.1020300@vlnb.net> <49197DFF.9080901@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:56453 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756170AbYKKOFG (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:05:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <49197DFF.9080901@garzik.org> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Cc: linux-scsi , Bart Van Assche , scst-devel Jeff Garzik wrote: > 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 :) Yes, OSD is a good thing. I'd love to add an OSD backend in SCST. > Jeff > > > >