Re: best userspace iscsi target lib?

Vladislav Bolkhovitin
2008-11-11T14:05:06Z

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:
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>> $ svn co https://scst.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scst/trunk
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>> 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?
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> 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.

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