On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > For years I have been hoping that someone will invent a simple protocol (w/ > strong auth) that can transit ATA and SCSI commands and responses. Heck, it > would be almost trivial if the kernel had a TLS/SSL implementation. Why would you want authorization? If you don't use IP (just ethernet framing), then 99% of the time the solution is to just trust the subnet. So most people would never want TLS/SSL, and the ones that *do* want it would probably also want IP routing, so you'd actually be better off with a separate higher-level bridging protocol rather than have TLS/SSL as part of the actual packet protocol. So don't add complexity. The beauty of ATA-over-ethernet is exactly that it's simple and straightforward. (Simple and straightforward is also nice for actually creating devices that are the targets of this. I just *bet* that an iSCSI target device probably needs two orders of magnitude more CPU power than a simple AoE thing that can probably be done in an FPGA with no real software at all). Whatever. We have now officially gotten totally off topic ;) Linus - 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
