Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

[Jeff Garzik]

Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 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.


Actually, think about those multiple connections...  we already had to 
implement fast-failover (and load bal) SCSI multi-pathing at a higher 
level.  IMO that portion of the protocol is redundant:   You need the 
same capability elsewhere in the OS _anyway_, if you are to support 
multi-pathing.

	Jeff



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