Anyone working on I-SCSI driver(s) for Linux???

[Steve Brueggeman]

After a quick browse through the Mail list archive at
http://ips.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/mail/maillist.html
I noticed that Justin Gibbs, and Alan Cox had a brief exchange more
than a year ago, but no Linux luminaries (that I noticed anyway)
since.

Does anyone know if there's any development happening in the area of
I-SCSI on Linux???

Ref: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-05.txt

I understand that this is still a draft in progress, but I would think
that someone, somewhere has started work on this by now. I just hope
they're not all closed-source.

Steve Brueggeman

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[Prasenjit Sarkar]

Hi,

A lot of companies are doing iSCSI Linux driver development and as far as I
know, they plan to open-source the Linux
drivers. At some point, I expect all of them to merge into one distribution

Hope this helps

Prasenjit Sarkar
Research Staff Member
IBM Almaden Research
San Jose

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04/03/2001 09:15 AM

[Alan Cox]

> A lot of companies are doing iSCSI Linux driver development and as far as I
> know, they plan to open-source the Linux
> drivers. At some point, I expect all of them to merge into one distribution

They might want to talk to the people doing open source iSCSI at the moment
and also the folks planning to rewrite the scsi layer for 2.5... Otherwise they
are likely to be obsolete by the time they open up their currently secret
projects

[Prasenjit Sarkar]

Agreed. there is no point in massively duplicating efforts. I also
believe that the driver should remain in the hands of the
opern-source iSCSI community.

I would like the people who are doing open-source iSCSI to speak up
in that I wasnt aware.

On the other hand, I wouldnt call these projects secret, I have seen
a lot of these Linux drivers without signing any non-disclosure agreement.
And certainly, I have been told they will be out in the next few months
(at most), so the chances of being obsolete are slim.

Prasenjit Sarkar
Research Staff Member
IBM Almaden Research
San Jose

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04/03/2001 11:42 AM

[Theodore Tso]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:16:37PM -0700, Prasenjit Sarkar wrote:
>
> Agreed. there is no point in massively duplicating efforts. I also
> believe that the driver should remain in the hands of the
> opern-source iSCSI community.
>
> I would like the people who are doing open-source iSCSI to speak up
> in that I wasnt aware.

I am looking at possibly doing an open-source iSCSI driver for a large
storage vendor. I have also recently started participating in the
IETF IPS working group (where iSCSI is being standardized) as somone
from the Security Area to help provide some guidance to the wg, given
my security expertise.

> On the other hand, I wouldnt call these projects secret, I have seen
> a lot of these Linux drivers without signing any non-disclosure agreement.
> And certainly, I have been told they will be out in the next few months
> (at most), so the chances of being obsolete are slim.

Are these drivers for hardware adaptors that speak iSCSI, or software
implementations of iSCSI initiators/targets?

- Ted

[Mike Brown]

Hello,

To answer your question, yes.

A few points to bring up. Myself and two other developers are working on
iSCSI drivers for linux. This is a pure software solution and is GPL'd.
I hastily threw up a web page desribing the project here:

http://www.cs.uml.edu/~mbrown/iSCSI

More importantly, our current sources are also posted there. We had
planned on releasing code when we had finished implementing something that
worked, but due to this current thread I felt obligated to post what we've
got so far. At the time this project was started, we found no other
developers publicly working on an open sourced implementation for linux.
If others are working on this and have some code, please let me know. If
there are more mature solutions out there which plan on eventually
becoming open sourced, I'd like to take a peek.

Thanks.

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Steve Brueggeman wrote:

>After a quick browse through the Mail list archive at
>http://ips.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/mail/maillist.html
>I noticed that Justin Gibbs, and Alan Cox had a brief exchange more
>than a year ago, but no Linux luminaries (that I noticed anyway)
>since.
>
>Does anyone know if there's any development happening in the area of
>I-SCSI on Linux???
>
>Ref: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ips-iscsi-05.txt
>
>I understand that this is still a draft in progress, but I would think
>that someone, somewhere has started work on this by now. I just hope
>they're not all closed-source.
>
>Steve Brueggeman

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