Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

James Bottomley
2008-02-05T05:07:31Z

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 05:43 +0100, Matteo Tescione wrote:
> Hi all,
> And sorry for intrusion, i am not a developer but i work everyday with iscsi
> and i found it fantastic.
> Altough Aoe, Fcoe and so on could be better, we have to look in real world
> implementations what is needed *now*, and if we look at vmware world,
> virtual iron, microsoft clustering etc, the answer is iSCSI.
> And now, SCST is the best open-source iSCSI target. So, from an end-user
> point of view, what are the really problems to not integrate scst in the
> mainstream kernel?

The fact that your last statement is conjecture. It's definitely untrue
for non-IB networks, and the jury is still out on IB networks.

James