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Date:      Fri, 29 May 1998 13:51:22 -0400
From:      sbabkin@dcn.att.com
To:        stefan@promo.de
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: What to do with this thing ?!
Message-ID:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8AF4@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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> From: 	Stefan Bethke[SMTP:stefan@promo.de]
> 
> --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.
> 
[...]

> 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.
> 
> 
Sounds interesting, thanks.
This would need to have the client part for each OS. I already
have this part for FreeBSD, it needs only to be extended
for non-HDD command set, but how about other OSes ? Does
anyone volunteer to do that ? :-) Or do you suggest it as a
commercial project ?

Probably, another necessary and rather simple change will be to
change the implementation to SCSI-over-TCP because the devices to
be accessed are slow anyway.

-Sergey

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