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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 17:28:31 -0400

> David Miller wrote:
> > If the SCSI guys were smart, there would be a totally generic helper
> > layer that allows anyone to hook into the SCSI layer as a virtual SCSI
> > disk provider in like 10 lines of code. :-)
> 
> The SCSI target code gives you the capability to do that (the SCSI 
> transport part, the virtual storage part is easy from there).

I don't get to control the server side in my case, I'm a client
talking to something with a pre-determined interface.