Re: iSCSI Autosense Consensus, Connection next steps

[Stephen Bailey <steph@cs.uchicago.edu>]

> In practice a number of interesting applications (like a machine room or
> limited LAN) can control (or easily know) their configurations, and so might
> be able to use a feature that was configuration dependent (SCSI, Fibre
> Channel, and Ethernet all have some configuration constraints today for
> certain things).

Agreed.  That's why I said:

> This doesn't mean that it's impossible to control path selection in
> ALL cases.  It's just that you have to carefully control the network
> configuration in addition to the software behavior.

The question is, who (which layer entity) should be signed up to take
the fall for it working or not.

The use of wedge drivers usually already implies a careful level of
configuration control.  On the other hand I believe iSCSI should be a
really generic component and not sign up for this type of thing.

Steph

(the horse seems dead)