From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 29 10:46:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA23265 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from att.com (kcgw2.att.com [192.128.133.152]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA22861 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:45:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sbabkin@dcn.att.com) From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Received: by kcgw2.att.com; Fri May 29 12:26 CDT 1998 Received: from dcn71.dcn.att.com ([135.44.192.112]) by kcig2.att.att.com (AT&T/GW-1.0) with ESMTP id MAA09321 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 12:44:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: by dcn71.dcn.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Fri, 29 May 1998 13:51:24 -0400 Message-ID: To: stefan@promo.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What to do with this thing ?! Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 13:51:22 -0400 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > ---------- > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message