So you expect the latency and nondeterministic nature of IP
communication to be solved satisfactorily enough for meaningful disk
traffic to occur?
I have not looked at in depth, but iSCSI strikes me as a round peg in a
square hole solution.
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Jim Wildman, CISSP jim@rossberry.com
http://www.rossberry.com
On 11 Sep 2002, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> I'm really hoping iSCSI explodes. There are currently 3 different iSCSI
> initiators (SCSI clients) for Linux at the moment, but no-one has really
> set off to write an iSCSI target (SCSI device) server yet. As soon as
> this happens, I foresee a great depression in the current high-priced
> SAN market (hopefully with the demise of EMC).
>
> 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?
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