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Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
> Love, Robert W, on 03/20/2009 07:54 PM wrote:
>>> The first thing I would like to ask about is the status of the FCoE
>>> target and how dependent on the SCST project it is.
>>>
>> The status is that it's mostly rotting and may not be functional as-is.
>> It's based on our old initiator code as well as SCST, neither of which
>> are in-kernel.
>>
>> Sivaram, Joe and Mike have been discussing some patches recently to
>> update the target to get it working again.
>>
>> IMO if we want an FCoE target we need to decide on which framework to
>> use. Either SCST needs to get in-kernel or we need to base the FCoE
>> target on stgt. My understanding is that the main difference in the
>> two projects is that SCST is mostly kernel code where stgt is mostly
>> user space code (with some kernel components which are allready 
>> upstream).
>> There have been a lot of technical discussions on the subject of
>> what the target infrastructure should look like on linux-scsi.
>>
>> So, depending on which direction is decided upon one would then need
>> to either hook our upstream initiator into SCST (once it's upstream)
>> or port our current initiator code to userspace to work with stgt.
> 
> During decision making please consider SCST patchset and its description 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/10/245. It argues advantages of SCST over 
> STGT.
> 
> Basically, there is only one thing left to make SCST upstream ready: 
> changing its userspace interface from procfs to sysfs. This work is 
> actively being done. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Vlad
> 

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