Quotes of the week

For example iSCSI: blew its early promise, pulled a bunch of unnecessary networking into the protocol and ended up too big to fit in disk firmware (thus destroying the ability to have a simple network tap to replace storage fabric). It's been slowly fading until Virtualisation came along. Now all the other solutions to getting storage into virtual machines are so horrible and arcane that iSCSI looks like a winner (if the alternative is Frankenstein's monster, Grendel's mother suddenly looks more attractive as a partner).

I'm a few days backlogged at present, sorry. Probably because of the rain - I really should move the computer indoors.

When the logical extension to an answer to a problem is "Add a configuration option to almost every driver", you might want to rethink.