On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 07:58 -0700, Chetan Loke wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > > During the open panel, my question was really specific - > > > > Q) What is the future of a SCSI-target subsystem in linux. Which > > target engine/subsystem can we expect? > > > > Your answer) There is place for only 1 target-subsystem in the Linux > > scsi stack and in the LSF summit the decision was taken to merge LIO. > > Has that > > decision changed since the summit? > > The decision hasn't been taken to merge LIO, but based on what happened > at the summit, I think it's the most viable candidate and will likely be > merged by 2.6.37 (resending as plain text) No matter which kernel-based storage target subsystem is merged, a migration path should be provided for SCST users such that these can continue using their SCST target drivers without too much trouble. Otherwise you'll upset a large number of SCST users. Note: an SCST target driver is the code that implements a storage protocol. See also http://scst.sourceforge.net/scst_pg.html for a overview diagram. Bart. -- 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
