Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Aug 2002 16:59:49 +0400 | From | Joshua MacDonald <> | Subject | Re: Idle curiosity: Acting as a SCSI target |
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 04:38:31PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote: > Based on a conversation I had recently, my curiosity got piqued... > > I'm not really sure how to query google on this, and didn't turn up what > I was looking for because of that, so here's the random question: > > Is there a way to make a Linux machine with a scsi controller act like a > scsi device (is the correct term 'target'?) (such as a disk) using a > local block device as storage? > > I'm not sure it would be of general use, but I can see uses in weird or > remote prototyping situations... > > Like the subject says, just idle curiosity; I don't see having much use > for it, but I was intrigued by the idea.
SCSI targets are also quite useful for testing disk-failure handling in file systems, RAID devices, and databases...
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~abrown/papers/usenix00.pdf
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