On lunedì 4 febbraio 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So from a purely personal standpoint, I'd like to say that I'm not really > interested in iSCSI (and I don't quite know why I've been cc'd on this > whole discussion) and think that other approaches are potentially *much* > better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with. surely aoe is better than iscsi almost on performance because of the lesser protocol stack: iscsi -> scsi - ip - eth aoe -> ata - eth but surely iscsi is more a standard than aoe and is more actively used by real-world . Other really useful feature are that: - iscsi is capable to move to a ip based san scsi devices by routing that ( i've some tape changer routed by scst to some system that don't have other way to see a tape). - because it work on the ip layer it can be routed between long distance , so having needed bandwidth you can have a really remote block device spoking a standard protocol between non ethereogenus systems. - iscsi is now the cheapest san avaible. bye, marco. - 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
