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A tale of two SCSI targets

A tale of two SCSI targets

Posted Aug 11, 2011 10:04 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
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How can something which essentially just provides a network block device (which means read, write and barrier) be so complicated?

Does all this apparent insane bloat need to be in the kernel?


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A tale of two SCSI targets

Posted Aug 13, 2011 17:56 UTC (Sat) by abacus (guest, #49001) [Link]

Does all this apparent insane bloat need to be in the kernel?

Implementing a storage target in the kernel allows faster operation than a comparable implementation in user space.

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