On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 03:25 +1000, Aboo Valappil wrote: > I wanted to make a NDMP (A protocol used to manage tapes and perform > backup/resotre on NAS heads) initiator for Linux (Just out of my > interest).. I was not very good with doing stuff inside the kernel. > First my idea was to modify the Cisco iSCSI initiator and make it for > NDMP. But i found, it is too much of work + I already had a user space > implimentation of NDMP procedures. So I thought of making a virtual HBA > and expose the SCSI mid-layer to a user space application. We actually already have an existing target infrastructure project here: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/tomo/linux-2.6-target.git;a=summary It seems to be very similar to yours ... could you see how easy it would be for you to integrate with this project? Thanks, James - To unsubscribe from this list: 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
