Re: best userspace iscsi target lib?

Jeff Garzik
2008-11-11T12:43:46Z

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