On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Oliver Rath <rath@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > On 02.04.2015 10:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> [..] >> For that case writing a SCSI target would be more useful I think. One >> protocol that is really missing is SAS, and I think a SAS target using >> libsas should be fairly doable, especially for chips like the mvsas >> family that is heavily used in targets. > > I think, youre right, that SAS is another useful case. But for learning > AoE seems more interesting for me. Additionally, the SAS part is the > device-part, AoE ist the network-part. So if Ming Li want to learn the > network-part, SAS is the wrong thing. > >> >>> And also hope it could be useful. >> I think a mainline ATAoE target would be very useful, but I doubt it >> should be merged into LIO, there just isn't a whole lot of overlap. > > Ok, that is a point i dont know. Imho LIO is a framework for exporting > devices over net in different ways (iscsi, fiber, aoe, udp ;-) ), so I > could imagine, that AoE is a relativly easy part to implement: > > @Ming Lin: If you need a tester for Aoe, ich would do it. I used Aoe in > different ways and would be glad to see support in LIO. It would solve > different problems for me. That's great! I'll try to make some patches. But no guarantee when it'll be ready. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
