Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

Jeff Garzik
2008-02-05T19:12:37Z

Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> iSCSI is way, way too complicated.
>
> I fully agree. From one side, all that complexity is unavoidable for
> case of multiple connections per session, but for the regular case of
> one connection per session it must be a lot simpler.

Actually, think about those multiple connections... we already had to
implement fast-failover (and load bal) SCSI multi-pathing at a higher
level. IMO that portion of the protocol is redundant: You need the
same capability elsewhere in the OS _anyway_, if you are to support
multi-pathing.

Jeff