support fabrics other than iscsi

open-iscsi / targetd

Remote configuration of a LIO-based storage appliance

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support fabrics other than iscsi #2

Open agrover opened 12 years ago

agrover commented 12 years ago

like fcoe, fc, etc.

kirantpatil commented 11 years ago

how about support for nfs and cifs?

agrover commented 11 years ago

@kirantpatil that's a whole nother thing -- alternate fabrics besides iscsi are already supported in LIO, which is what targetd is using. File-based protocols would involve some different mechanism, on the backend. The good news is that libsm does support file-based protocols, so if targetd added support, we could still present a unified interface via libsm/lsmcli.

kirantpatil commented 11 years ago

thanks for clarification.

There is one more fabric, it is AOE (ata over ethernet).

Have you ever thought of supporting it?

agrover commented 11 years ago

I think it would be a welcome addition to the kernel target, but nobody has championed its development.