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 - : 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
