Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Subject | Re: Remote SCSI Emulation | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:01:07 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2003-09-05 at 00:59, David Lang wrote:> > > Another, more generic, solution is "ip over scsi": > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=%22ip+over+scsi%22 > > Actually, ip over scsi cannot accomplish the goal listed above.
No, it can instead replace much of it with a better infrastructure as can ATA over ethernet. Or you can push the whole problem up to fs level and you get stuff like LUSTRE
> what is beeing looked for here is the scsi equivalent of the USB 'gadget' > driver, letting linux be at the slave end of things as well as the master.
Which is a strange place to put a Linux box but I guess you might want to build a legacy SCSI raid box that way as opposed to iSCSI.
> does anyone have an idea why *BSD was able to do this, but all the linux > projects seem to get stuck half-finished? is this just added complexity > due to the large number of linux scsi drivers or is there something deeper > in the system?
You need to add target support to some of the drivers and probably a chunk of infrastructure as well. I suspect someone did the job for BSD and since its pretty rarely needed and its normally in a closed box where the core OS being Linux doesn't matter everyone else just used BSD for that job.
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