Re: SCSITAP, Virtual SCSI HBA and user space SCSI initiators

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Thanks James,

Is'nt this a target implimentation, rather than a initiator? That page does not give me more details. I have sent an email to the author of the project to get more details. Hopefully, they will reply :)

Aboo

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:48:39 -0500, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

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