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

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Date:	Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:07:12 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Matteo Tescione <matteo@...et.it>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Mike Christie <michaelc@...wisc.edu>,
	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@...ux-iscsi.org>,
	scst-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@....ntt.co.jp>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel


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


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