[Stgt-devel] stgt & IBM virtual SCSI Target Driver

[Ming Zhang]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 20:54 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: Ming Zhang <mingz at ele.uri.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Stgt-devel] stgt & IBM virtual SCSI Target Driver
> Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 14:01:31 -0400
> 
> > > > > > I also think about rename IET something generic like istgt or isstgt
> > > > > > (iSCSI software target). After all, the code will be really very from
> > > > > > the original IET code. Any suggestions?
> > > > 
> > > > istgt is better. is(csi) + tgt
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure because we'll support multiple iSCSI target drivers.
> > 
> > there are mpt, qla. maybe we use IETTGT to indicate it is originated
> > from iet?
> 
> This implementation is a new project. It is a fork of IET. I think
> that calling two different implementations a same name causes
> unnecessary confusion (e.g. sfnet and open-iscsi).

my understanding is when tgt get matured, IET will be merged here soon.
iet always wants to have a better layer split and now tgt comes. so iet
of course will follow this path. i do not think we need to maintain 2
open source iscsi software target code. 

> 
> 
> > We already registered IET in T10 as a vendor id. so it is a
> > formal name.
> 
> The new project can get it easily if necessary.

yes, of course. but the reality is once this one gets matured, i do not
think there are still many people use IET. :P

Ming