[4459] in linux-net channel archive
Re: SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Sep 17 18:43:35 1996
From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
To: hm@seneca.muc.de (Harald Milz)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:54:14 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0v33Z2-0006R8C@seneca> from "Harald Milz" at Sep 17, 96 08:04:00 pm
> 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.
Ridiculous as that sounds, its not actually that hard to build a SCSI upper
layer handler that uses TCP to pass the scsi messages back and forth. Silly
yes, doable yes
