From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 29 08:45:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA22131 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:45:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schubert.Promo.DE (schubert.Promo.DE [194.45.188.65] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA22034 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 08:44:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stefan@promo.de) Received: from d254.promo.de (d254.Promo.DE [194.45.188.254]) by schubert.Promo.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA05956; Fri, 29 May 1998 17:40:07 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 17:42:39 +0200 From: "Stefan Bethke" To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do with this thing ?! Message-ID: <1529897.3105452559@d254.promo.de> In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mulberry Demo (MacOS) [1.4.0a4, s/n Evaluation] X-Licensed-To: Unlicensed - for evaluation only MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Fre, 29. Mai 1998 10:32 Uhr -0400 sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > I have brought the SCSI-over-FastEthernet project to the working > prototype stage. And that brought a big question, what to do with > it ? > Does anybody has any ideas or wish lists ? Yes: supporting access to devices across a network, prossibly from different OSes. Just as an example: a typical graphics designer studio needs to access all kinds of removable media devices for file exchange (Zip, Jaz, SyQuest, you name it). Instead of carrying around these drives, or buying lots of them, a "SCSI server" could offer these to clients. The "correct" solution would be to mount the media locally, however: - we don't have a "vold" (or comparable) - we don't support Mac HFS or HFS+, or FAT32, NTFS, or HPFS (as a mountable file system) Access to these file systems would then be provided by netatalk and samba. Using the "SCSI server" instead, each OS can access the disk directly, with it's own native FS implementation. This system would allow for only one client per device, or possibly single writer/multi reader, and the server would have to arbitrate between clients mounting the devices. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-18 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message