On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 22:43 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > > better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > > low-level, and against those crazy SCSI people to begin with. > > Current ATAoE isn't. It can't support NCQ. A variant that did NCQ and IP > would probably trash iSCSI for latency if nothing else.
But ATAoE is boring because it's not IP. Which means no routing, firewalls, tunnels, congestion control, etc. NBD and iSCSI (for all its hideous growths) can take advantage of these things. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
