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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:38:39AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >>The original post was for ATA over *ethernet*, not IP.
> >>I looked at the spec. It is extremely light weight.
> >>Conceivably it could be implemented in an ASIC.
> >
> >iSCSI has a lot of promise, both in terms of cheaper SAN
> >infrastructure and in terms of wide-area functionality.  It's
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> nice idea to make money. first complicate, then promise to make it=20
> cheaper. creating 2 different networks instead of one.
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> there is no need for any SAN solutions other that just exporting=20
> filesystem over normal ethernet (maybe gigabit).

Uhm, might I suggest you study why folks (other than you) use SANs before
making such claims? While you may need nothing more than say NFS, SANs do=
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a different job than file exports. Thus they are needed.

Take care,

Bill

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