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

[Ming Zhang]

On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 23:36 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: Ming Zhang <mingz at ele.uri.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Stgt-devel] stgt & IBM virtual SCSI Target Driver
> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 09:39:18 -0400
> 
> > > > > 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. 
> 
> It's not about only using the tgt framework. There are many other
> issues.
> 
> Hopefully, the tgt framework will be merged into mainline. After that,
> I'll rewrite the large portion of IET. The iSCSI target implementation
> for tgt will be completely different from IET.

ic. so u want to redo it. then it is separated and independent new
project.

> 
> If I successfully make the new iSCSI implementation as stable as the
> current IET code, I'll stop maintaining IET.

at that time, i do not see reasons that why IET should keep alive. :P

ming