Re: several messages

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 03:16:20 EST


On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:32:12AM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 22:16 -0400, Ming Zhang wrote:
> > iscsi is scsi over ip.
>
> correction. iSCSI today has RFC at least for two transports - TCP/IP and
> iSER/RDMA(in finalized progress) with RDMA over Infiniband or RNIC. And
> I think people start writing initial draft for SCTP/IP transport...
>
> >From this perspective, iSCSI certainly more advanced and matured
> comparing to NBD variations.

It's for certainly much more complicated (in marketing speak that's usually
called advanced) but far less mature.

If you want network storage to just work use nbd.
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