Re: Re[2]: ata over ethernet question

[Dmitry Yusupov]

On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 09:16 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 12:44:18PM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
> > i'm just reacting on "bloated" wording. It really depends on
> > implementation and design. If you were talking about amount of code in
> > the kernel, than take a look on open-iscsi(just one file iscsi_tcp.c)
> > and IET where we doing a lot of management stuff in user-space. It is
> > not that much code in the kernel, really, but it is doing x10 times more
> > useful things comparing to nbd and yet compliant with RFC.
> 
> Keeping code out of the kernel is really nice, but that doesn't meant it
> isn't bloat - the bloat is just in userland.

well, "userland" == "bloatland" anyways... Multiple discovery methods,
configuration database, bunch of security protocols, etc... all this of
course will make it "slightly" :) bigger than nbd. But again, for a good
reason and better usefulness.

Dmitry

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