RTS and the GPL [LWN.net]

RTS and the GPL

Posted Nov 15, 2012 18:59 UTC (Thu) by xxiao (subscriber, #9631)
In reply to: RTS and the GPL by ttonino
Parent article: RTS and the GPL

I for one fully support SCST as an alternative. Solid, easy to use,etc. I recently did a 10G iSCSI project based on SCST(no LIO) and it performed extremely well.
Tried to use LIO, it's a pain to pull together the kernel, and its user space and all that together(RTS repo keeps changing, document out of date,..). Wish I will never be forced to do that in the future.

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RTS and the GPL

Posted Nov 15, 2012 19:42 UTC (Thu) by agrover (subscriber, #55381) [Link]

I'm fine with LIO the code. The fact that it's in upstream now makes many integration issues easier, and lets us all work on it to improve it.

I've been working on improving the out-of-box user experience for the LIO user tools as well. With my enhanced version of targetcli (in Fedora 17+, repos on github) configuring a scsi target can be pretty painless. I've done some Youtube screencasts on it, and added a manpage for targetcli.

At this point, I'm definitely not in favor of dumping LIO, but we need to get these license and maintainer potential conflict-of-interest issues straightened out.

(not speaking for my employer)