On 09/28/05 12:30, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 04:37:03 PDT, Luben Tuikov said: > > >>When it comes down to it SCSI Core is 20 years behind and thus Linux Storage >>is 20 years behind. > > > Hmm.. 20 years ago I was hooking Fujitsu Super-Eagles to Sun3/280 servers. > If you're going to claim that the current SCSI core is *that* far behind, you're > going to have to back it up. Remember that making exaggerated claims is a good > way to make people not listen to the *rest* of your message. > > Seen in include/scsi/scsi.h: > > /* > * FIXME: bit0 is listed as reserved in SCSI-2, but is > * significant in SCSI-3. For now, we follow the SCSI-2 > * behaviour and ignore reserved bits. > */ > > So obviously, it's at least the number of years since SCSI-3 was defined, > but no more than the time since SCSI-2. According to http://home.comcast.net/~SCSIguy/SCSI_FAQ/scsifaq.html > SCSI-2 devices started showing up in 1988, and X3.131-1994 came out in 1994. > 1996 saw the first SCSI-3 proposals. > > I'll give you *one* decade, but not two. :) Ok, I'll take that. BTW, I was referring to the _architecture_ of SCSI Core. It hasn't seen any _innovation_ for the last 5 years as far as SCSI or Storage is concerned. Luben - : 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
