Re: iSCSI initiator driver beta version, testers wanted

From: Brian Candler <B.Candler_at_pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 12:27:06 +0000
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 12:45:07PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> Haven't received much feedback, either it's a piece of s... or
> it's just working fantastic, or ?
> Anyways, I'm planning to be in Basel for BsdConn next week, so if anybody
> has something to say about it, i'm a good listener.

I for one found the idea very interesting. If we could have an iSCSI target
too, then we would have a complete standards-compliant replacement for GEOM
ggated/ggatec, which might also form the basis of a low-cost SAN. [*]

However I didn't reply, for two reasons:

(1)  I think you said your code had no error-recovery. In my experience, the
error-recovery code is typically the hardest to write, which implies to me
the code is a long way from complete and therefore not really worth testing.
That is, there's no point testing from the point of view "is this code ready
for production?" when code without error-handling isn't, by definition.

That's just the impression I got of course, which may be wrong.

(2) I didn't fancy setting up a Linux box just so that I had an iSCSI target
:-)

Regards,

Brian.

[*] It might be necessary also to have some magic which maps arbitary
devices under the CAM layer, e.g. so you could share an IDE drive, or a
gvinum volume, as if it were a SCSI device. Or perhaps the iSCSI target can
just be a userland daemon, talking to the CAM layer where the device
supports it, or GEOM otherwise.
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