Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:40:44 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ENBD for 2.5.64 |
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Peter T. Breuer wrote: > "Justin Cormack wrote:" >>And I am intending to write an iscsi client sometime, but it got >>delayed. The server stuff is already available from 3com. > > > Possibly, but ENBD is designed to fail :-). And networks fail. > What will your iscsi implementation do when somebody resets the > router? All those issues are handled by ENBD. ENBD breaks off and > reconnects automatically. It reacts right to removable media.
Yeah, iSCSI handles all that and more. It's a behemoth of a specification. (whether a particular implementation implements all that stuff correctly is another matter...)
BTW, I'm a big enbd fan :) I like enbd for it's _simplicity_ compared to iSCSI.
Jeff
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