On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:04 -0400, Chetan Loke wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 11:11 AM, James Bottomley > <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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 > > > > During the open panel, facebook guys and others were tooting that > start-ups thrive because they can hack linux. Well there are quite a > few start-ups that use scst too for creating target appliances. > Has anyone even bothered to glance the scst mailing list to see if > that community is dead or alive? > > I for one use scst to create synthetic work-loads and test 200+ VM > nodes in an ESX cluster. Anyone who has worked on a SAN OS will > appreciate the simplicity of SCST. And if folks still can't understand > the SCST code(after reading the README) then they are still welcome to > send an email on SCST. Would you like to make your FC stack go faster, > well please drop us an email on SCST and we will try our best to > further optimize the FC driver. > > I know folks who don't understand simple DMA bus traces, FC wire > traces and yet they have the power to influence decisions. > > James you are an expert but not everyone is. This is not a venting > session but even folks who are new to target architecture find it easy > to hack SCST. But that's not really relevant, is it? I would expect that whatever I do, even keeping both out of tree, the communities around the solutions would still exist and be vibrant, since they're out of tree now, nothing will have changed. 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
