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<font size=3>At 08:04 AM 8/19/2005, Yaron Haviv wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">> -----Original
Message-----<br>
> From: Christoph Hellwig
[<a href="mailto:hch@lst.de" eudora="autourl">mailto:hch@lst.de</a>]<br>
> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:22 AM<br>
> To: Roland Dreier<br>
> Cc: Yaron Haviv; Christoph Hellwig; Grant Grundler; open-<br>
> iscsi@googlegroups.com; openib-general@openib.org<br>
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] [ANNOUNCE] Initial trunk checkin
of<br>
> ISERinitiator<br>
> <br>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:24:24PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:<br>
> > Yaron> Not every one wants to keep
on doing target discovery<br>
with<br>
> > Yaron> Python scripts,<br>
> ><br>
> > Come on, this is just a stupid statement. The whole point
of<br>
putting<br>
> > device management in userspace is so that everybody has
the<br>
> > flexibility to use whatever discovery mechanism they want.<br>
> <br>
> And just FYI. If you ever want an iSER implementation merged
it will<br>
> have to work the same way. Look at how the open-iscsi TCP
initator<br>
does<br>
> it.<br><br>
Good point, the high-level functionality in iSER<br>
is all done in Open-iSCSI and its userspace extensions<br>
iSER just deals with the data transfer and is layered under
Open-iSCSI<br><br>
by the way can you point me to the iSCSI HBA that delivers better<br>
performance, latency, and memory consumption <br>
and what about the price of that HBA and the attached 10GbE switch
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Is any of this really relevant? The focus here is open source and
creating a RDMA infrastructure for ULP to use. The market will
decide whether a given technology survives or not. It isn't up to
the open source community. Please take personal opinions on whether
a technology will succeed elsewhere. <br><br>
Mike</font></body>
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