Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:45:51 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!) |
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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi, > > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Please continue to think of TCP checksums as valid for a data transport, > > you data will be gone soon enough. > > > > Initiator == Controller > > Target == Disk > > iSCSI == cable or ribbon > > > > Please turn off the CRC on your disk drive and see if you still have data. > > This maybe works as PR, but otherwise it's crap.
So, please turn off the CRC's in your onboard storage today and see how long it lasts.
> With a network protocol you have multiple possibilities to increase the > reliability. The lower you do it in the network layer the easier is it > to put it into hardware and to optimize it and the more generically it's > usable. Doing it in the protocol is only the last resort. The iSCSI > protocol is a nice protocol - if you ignore all the crap the hardware > vendors put in (that stuff only makes sense if you want to produce ultra > cheap hardware).
I will be happy to see everyone turn off the CRC's on the data and headers on their products or the open sources ones which fail to follow the rules. I am well away of everyones contempt for standards.
Cheers,
Andre Hedrick, CTO & Founder iSCSI Software Solutions Provider http://www.PyXTechnologies.com/
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