From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: use dedicated storage for scsi_debug LUNs
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 07:26:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq1wq2ucnwt.fsf@sermon.lab.mkp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150306091128.GA30096@aepfle.de> (Olaf Hering's message of "Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:11:28 +0100")
>>>>> "Olaf" == Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:
Olaf> On Thu, Mar 05, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>> So it is possible. The stock answer has typically been that you
>> should probably be using the target subsystem for that. Thoughts?
Olaf> Is the target subsystem capable of stacking? What I need for
Olaf> xen-scsiback is a bunch of true SCSI devices. Due to lack of
Olaf> hardware, scsi_debug looks like the obvious choice.
I agree with Doug. The target code is much more comprehensive than
scsi_debug. You can set up file/disk/ram-backed SCSI LUNs on your
machine without the need for any hardware .
--
Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-06 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-05 15:33 use dedicated storage for scsi_debug LUNs Olaf Hering
2015-03-05 21:22 ` Douglas Gilbert
2015-03-06 9:11 ` Olaf Hering
2015-03-06 12:26 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2015-03-06 15:06 ` Olaf Hering
2015-03-06 15:28 ` Martin K. Petersen
2015-03-20 12:07 ` Olaf Hering
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