On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 22:16 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote: > iscsi is scsi over ip. correction. iSCSI today has RFC at least for two transports - TCP/IP and iSER/RDMA(in finalized progress) with RDMA over Infiniband or RNIC. And I think people start writing initial draft for SCTP/IP transport... >From this perspective, iSCSI certainly more advanced and matured comparing to NBD variations. > usb disk is scsi over usb. > so just a different transport. > u are rite. ;) > > ming > > On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 23:26 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > Hello and thanks for the replies > > > > On Wed, 11 May 2005, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > > > The iSCSI protocol simply encapsulates the SCSI protocol into the > > > TCP/IP protocol, and carries packets over IP networks. You can handle > > ... > > > > On Wed, 11 May 2005, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > > Actually, this is property not of iSCSI target itself, but of any SCSI target. > > > So, we implemented it as part of our SCSI target mid-level (SCST, > > > http://scst.sourceforge.net), therefore any target driver working over it will > > > automatically benefit from this feature. Unfortunately, currently available > > > only target drivers for Qlogic 2x00 cards and for poor UNH iSCSI target (that > > > works not too reliable and only with very specific initiators). The published > > ... > > > > The above confirms basically my understanding apart from one "minor" > > confusion - I thought, that parallel to hardware solutions pure software > > implementations were possible / being developed, like a driver, that > > implements a SCSI LDD API on one side, and forwards packets to an IP > > stack, say, over an ethernet card - on the initiator side. And a counter > > part on the target side. Similarly to the USB mass-storage and storage > > gadget drivers? > > > > Thanks > > Guennadi > > --- > > Guennadi Liakhovetski > > > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
