Re: iSCSI : On the subject of R2T and Task Tags.

[Matt Wakeley <matt_wakeley@agilent.com>]

Santosh Rao wrote:

> The advantage of defining the fields explicitly in the header as opposed
> to allowing targets to vertically encode a portion of the tag field for
> tracking the R2T is that these standard fields are interpret-able
> by iSCSI Analyzers and will make debugging and tracking the
> sequence of the I/O easier than implementation specific
> vertical encoding into a single field.

Uh, now that any kind of "out of band" framing is gone, it will be very
difficult to make an analyzer that is capable of syncing up with an iSCSI
session.

-Matt