iSCSI and FCP

[Black_David@emc.com]

> > Also, a transport (iSCSI) shouldn't be influenced by
> > another transport (FCP), but only by the unifying layer,
> > i.e. SAM-3.
> 
> Well?

Ok as a "first principles" position, I suppose ... but FCP
has a lot of deployment experience, and is known to work.
In addition, bridges to FCP and other SCSI transports are
a reasonable thing to consider.  For example, both of these
contributed to the decision in Yokohama to drop the
BidiInitialR2T key.  So, I think "shouldn't be influenced"
isn't the right approach - there are things to be learned
from FCP's experience, and issues that arise in cross-
transport bridges should not be dismissed out-of-hand.

Thanks,
--David
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