Daniel Debonzi wrote: > Hi all, > > I am starting to get in touch with the Open FCoE project (and also the > Fibre Channel thing itself) and as far as one of my tasks is work with > the Open FCoE target I started to gather information regarding that. > > I had an initial conversation with Robert but we didn't entered to much > in details about the target so as he mentioned a good place to figure > things out is here. > > > First of all, I apologize in advance if I write something really stupid > or non-sense because as I wrote before, I am just starting. > > 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. > > I read in some places that FCoE target is/is been implemented to work > with tgt too. Does anybody has something to tell me about that? > > Keeping on this direction I would like to mention/discuss the following > part of tgt README: > > """ > Tgt consists of kernel modules, user-space daemon, and user-space > tools. iSCSI, iSER, and FCoE target drivers use only user-space daemon > and tools (i.e. they are just user-space applications. They don't need > any kernel support). > """ >
Yes. > Again, is it implemented (FCoE using tgt) and is it really purely user > space? > Yes, but it is old and not maintained and even when it was new it was not really maintained - it was just ported to see how it would work I think. It is really good for finding bugs in the initiator because it will send wrong IOs or die out of now where so it really stresses the recovery on the initiator :) It is what I used to fix lots of bugs in the fc_fcp.c and fc_exch.c code. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
