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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: Several Questions.Kim, SCSI has a bit more than the CDB. It has a "task-tag" that enables several commands to be queued by a device, a selector for a unit, specification of the transfer length, an address where to place data, a response, a target address. All of them are specified in SAM-2. Their mapping is infrastructure specific. As for NFS versus SCSI - NFS is a file oriented protocol while SCSI is (for a while) a block transfer protocol. They are used by different application classes. It is possible that they will "converge" into a common successor but it will take a while until this will happen if it will happen. Julo Kim Tae Hyung <kotaeji@pilots.postech.ac.kr> on 03/08/2000 18:18:12 Please respond to kotaeji@postech.ac.kr To: ips@ece.cmu.edu cc: (bcc: Julian Satran/Haifa/IBM) Subject: Several Questions. Hi, all. I am a graduate student who is very interested in iSCSI. Although I feel very difficult, I am trying to follow up the articles in this mailing list. Reading the articles in this mailing list nowadays, I cannot fully understand every new issue. By the way, with my amateur's eyes, some very basic questions have made me write this article. The first question is about the SCSI protocol itself. iSCSI is just a mapping the SCSI protocol to TCP. But looking in details, I think that it is just the mapping of CDB. After removing the unnecessary parts of SCSI protocol due to the change of underlying physical media from bus to network, I think just CDBs remain, eventually. Then how can we map the operation sequence of SCSI protocol to that of iSCSI ? I wonder whether we can call this just mapping of CDB to SCSI protocol. I think CDB is not the everything of SCSI. The second question is the distinct differences between NFS and iSCSI. According to "draft-von-ipsissues-01.txt" file, there are the following paragraph. 4.2.4 NFS "NFS is the current solution for accessing storage over the network. Its strengths are ease-of-use, file sharing, and security. The general assumption is that a block storage protocol should outperform NFS in some applications, but that assumption needs to be tested. Also, some applications (e.g. tape library) could benefit from a block storage protocol. In order for a block-based solution to be accepted, clear benefits over NFS (e.g. performance, direct access) must be proven, Even then, NFS would still be the solution of choice for those requiring ease-of-use and file sharing." 6. Conclusion - Any block storage protocol must show clear differentiation from NFS. I want to hear many opinions about the distinct differences between the file protocol such as NFS and iSCSI. Thanks in advance.
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