Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

[Vladislav Bolkhovitin]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way 
> > > better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and 
> > > low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with.
> >
> > Current ATAoE isn't. It can't support NCQ. A variant that did NCQ and IP
> > would probably trash iSCSI for latency if nothing else.
>
>
> AoE is truly a thing of beauty.  It has a two/three page RFC (say no more!).
>
> But quite so...  AoE is limited to MTU size, which really hurts.  Can't 
> really do tagged queueing, etc.
>
>
> 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.

And now think about iSER, which brings iSCSI on the whole new complexity 
level ;)

> It's an Internet protocol designed 
> by storage designers, what do you expect?
>
> For years I have been hoping that someone will invent a simple protocol 
> (w/ strong auth) that can transit ATA and SCSI commands and responses. 
> Heck, it would be almost trivial if the kernel had a TLS/SSL implementation.
>
> 	Jeff
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