I haven't tracked the IP storage group too closely, but was at the San Diego IETF where there were some interesting debates about this issue. There is a write-up at http://ips.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/mail/msg02598.html Now I'm not sure if I agree with some of the assumptions. And I share your concern about using multiple tcp streams. Thoughts? cheers, karthik --- Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-fcovertcpip-01.txt> > > show that both use TCP/IP. TCP/IP has variable length headers (or am i on > > crack?), which totally complicates the receive path. > > TCP has variable length headers. It also prevents you re-ordering commands > in the stream which would be beneficial. I've not checked if the draft uses > multiple TCP streams but then you have scaling questions. > > Alan > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
