RE: iSCSI: remove recovery from transport-layer connection failure(?)

["Douglas Otis" <dotis@sanlight.net>]

Costa,

Is this using RPC function calls?  Are you suggesting access via servers?

Doug

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> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:15 PM
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> Subject: iSCSI: remove recovery from transport-layer connection
> failure(?)
> 
> 
> 
> Currently, iSCSI is spec'ed to recover from transport-layer
> connection failures.
> 
> The main motivation for this decision was to support tape backup
> applications that are quite sensitive to any failures that get
> propogated to their layer.
> 
> However, there are other ways of doing backup over IP than
> SCSI/iSCSI.  NDMP (www.ndmp.org) and devices that implement it are
> already shipping.
> 
> So, perhaps we can remove the requirement of recovering from
> transport-layer connection failures in iSCSI. This would simplify
> the protocol somewhat.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Costa
>