On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 09:12, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> You know, an iSCSI target server project really would hit the enterprise
> much as SAMBA has. Does anyone know of ANY OpenSource efforts to attempt
> this yet?
Well, I found one, kinda:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~mbrown/iSCSI/README
it mentions a kernel emulator:
ftp://ftp.iol.unh.edu/pub/iscsi/kernel_emulator_10.tgz
You still need to front a SCSI device (or something that presents a SCSI
interface), but it's a good start.
And there seem to be 4 different Linux iSCSI initiators now. Wow.
The "ideal" iSCSI target server would present various targets based
entirely off of mapped files (think block loopback device). Heck, you
could make a 2TB virtual sparse file (or larger with the appropriate
patches) and share it out as an iSCSI target for simulating a hefty disk
array.
Talk about an ideal OpenSource SAN/NAS solution: Samba, NFS and Netatalk
on the NAS side, and iSCSI on the SAN side, with software raid and
lvm/lvm2/EVMS or some cheap IDE hardware RAID.
- Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net> <ian@blenke.com>
http://ian.blenke.com
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