[Stgt-devel] Adding Virtial Tape & Changer targets

Ming Zhang blackmagic02881
Wed Mar 21 14:44:09 CET 2007


On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:39 +1100, Mark Harvey wrote:
> A quick introduction.
> 
> I am planning on adding support to the stgt for both SSC and SMC
> devices with the aim of full Virtual Tape Library support.
> 
> I have a working VTL based around the scsi_debug kernel module +
> char-device 'back-end' to pass SCSI commands thru to user-space
> daemons (which poll the char device looking for work to do). These
> daemons act as the SSC or SMC devices.
> 
> This VTL I have had working for over 12mths. 

side question, your SSC/SMC code support to emulate one particular
VT/VTL or you will provide a framework to allow the emulation of
multiple different types of VTLs and VTs?

suggest you to release the code early so people can give you more
feedback.

thanks for the great work.

Ming





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