Re: iSCSI: Wrapping up SendTargets

[Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>]

Mark Bakke wrote:
> 
> I don't see any reason to disallow what Marjorie is asking
> for...
> Any thoughts?

There's the question of seperation of control and data.
My reading is that the spec to date assumes that these
will be in the same host.

Given the increasing complexity of the control services,
I'm not sure that a disk CPU can economically meet
the control requirements (I'm not a disk CPU expert).

So the argument for SendTargets describing other
targets it to allow a host that handles only control
services (such as a daemon on a general-purpose CPU).

Allowing a seperation also simplifies the firewalling
task.

I need to go and have a close read of the spec from
this perspective so please regard the above as a
very tentative remark, made very late in the day,
whilst reaching for the asbestos underwear :-)

Regards,
Glen

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