[4458] in linux-net channel archive
Re: SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Holland)
Tue Sep 17 15:47:31 1996
From: David Holland <dholland@hcs.harvard.edu>
To: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 15:14:38 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0v33Z2-0006R8C@seneca> from "Harald Milz" at Sep 17, 96 08:04:00 pm
> > SCSI-III purportedly includes a standard for SCSI over IP.
>
> You mean - SCSI over IP and not the other way? This would be _very_ good.
> Imagine disk mirroring over a T1 or T3 line from NYC to LA... (or Boulder,
> CA, if that matters ;^) This would position Linux in the vicinity of very
> expensive disaster recovery software.
As long as you can stick a layer of crypto in - otherwise you're just
borrowing trouble.
(That is, no long distance connection is terribly secure. Pressurized
conduit across the country? Not likely. Therefore you need crypto for
the link even if you trust the remote host to store the data in
clear.)
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