On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Roger B.A Klorese wrote: > You're missing the basic point.
I don't think so. > Most of today's disk drives and disk arrays don't have Ethernet adapters. True. > Yes, iSCSI is a protocol, but if you can't put that protocol over a wire > through which you can reach a provider, the distinction is pedantic at > best. > > In order for it to be useful, there need to be devices to talk to that will > speak it. OK, granted. > Similarly, one can claim that SCSI is a protocol that's spoken over FC... > But that doesn't mean you can connect an SCSI-over-FC disk drive to a > parallel-SCSI HBA without an adapter. For that matter, you can speak IP > over FC... But that doesn't mean you can have IP-over-FC and > IP-over-Ethernet-on-fiber devices talk to each other. You have confused me with that paragraph. However, let me clarify: The idea is to use GFS (or something like it). Lars Holmstr�m stated "Some other file systems (like GFS) requires specific hardware as far as I understand (iSCSI or FC) and most of the Clustered file systems simply share the storage, usually SCSI and would sometimes be somewhat limited." To which I replied (summarized): iSCSI has nothing to do with hardware. and I proceeded to yammer about how iSCSI is a protocol that essentially provides a block device over ethernet. My choice of the word "nothing" is wrong. What I meant to say is that the actual storage mechanism *underneath* the iSCSI provider is irrelevant, and that *no*, a user doesn't need to go out and acquire (typically) expensive hardware that speaks iSCSI, the user could buy cheap IDE drives and use his or her cheap, general-purpose machine running Linux to provide the iSCSI connectivity. Hope that clarifies things. -- No more monkey ducks, jumping on the bed! Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Parasoft Error proof Web apps, automate testing & more. Download & eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps1 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
