From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: aboo Subject: Re: SCSITAP, Virtual SCSI HBA and user space SCSI initiators Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 8:13:24 +1000 Message-ID: References: <1160675319.3432.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from ppp245-155.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.245.155]:21418 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751198AbWJLWSq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 18:18:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1160675319.3432.34.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Thanks James, Is'nt this a target implimentation, rather than a initiator? That page does not give me more details. I have sent an email to the author of the project to get more details. Hopefully, they will reply :) Aboo On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:48:39 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 03:25 +1000, Aboo Valappil wrote: >> I wanted to make a NDMP (A protocol used to manage tapes and perform >> backup/resotre on NAS heads) initiator for Linux (Just out of my >> interest).. I was not very good with doing stuff inside the kernel. >> First my idea was to modify the Cisco iSCSI initiator and make it for >> NDMP. But i found, it is too much of work + I already had a user space >> implimentation of NDMP procedures. So I thought of making a virtual HBA >> and expose the SCSI mid-layer to a user space application. > > We actually already have an existing target infrastructure project here: > > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tomo/linux-2.6-target.git;a=summary > > It seems to be very similar to yours ... could you see how easy it would > be for you to integrate with this project? > > Thanks, > > James ------------------------------------- Aboo.Org - Compliments From A & J :) -------------------------------------