Not s
about the reservation clearance. Otherwise, several initiators can at the same time change supposed to be protected by the
reservation data, which can corrupt them. This is what was called
"Russian roulette with your data" on the VMware
- community forum by someone working for VMware.
+ community forum by someone working for VMware. But, sure, it can affect not only VMware, but also any other cluster
+ implementation, relying on this functionality.
17. SCSI pass-through mode allows to export your local SCSI-capable device. For instance with it you can share your parallel
SCSI tape or SATA DVD-RW device to your iSCSI network.
-
18. LIO doesn't emulate all the necessary SCSI host functionality to allow to share SCSI devices
- in pass-through mode to several initiators. It can only pass SCSI commands from initiators to
+
18. STGT and LIO don't emulate all the necessary SCSI host functionality to allow to share SCSI devices
+ in pass-through mode to several initiators. They can only pass SCSI commands from initiators to
SCSI devices and responses back. This is safe only with a single initiator. This limitation
- isn't enforced anyhow and LIO doesn't issue no warning about it, so an user will not be notified about it
- and can quietly corrupt his/her data. You can find more technical information about it
+ isn't enforced anyhow and both STGT and LIO don't issue any warning about it, so an user will not be notified about this
+ limitation and can quietly corrupt his/her data. You can find more technical information about it
here.
diff --git a/www/index.html b/www/index.html
index 830ef6de6..29f2eb64c 100644
--- a/www/index.html
+++ b/www/index.html
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@
-SCST: SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
+SCST: A Generic SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
-
SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
+
Generic SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@
-
SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
+
Generic SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux
-
The SCSI target subsystem for Linux (SCST) is an alternative
- implementation of SCSI target subsystem for Linux. It provides unified,
+
The generic SCSI target subsystem for Linux (SCST) is an alternative
+ implementation of a SCSI target subsystem for Linux. It provides unified,
consistent interface between SCSI target drivers and
Linux kernel as well as between Linux kernel and storage backend
handlers, connecting target drivers with real or emulated storage backend.
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
necessary error recovery.
SCST core undertakes most problems, related to execution contexts, thus practically eliminating one of the most
complicated problem in the kernel drivers development. For example, target drivers for QLogic
- 22xx/23xx cards and for InfiniBand SRP are only about 2300 lines of code long.
+ 22xx/23xx adapters and for InfiniBand SRP are only about 2300 lines of code long.
Very low overhead, fine-grained locks and simplest commands processing path allow to reach
maximum possible performance and scalability. Particularly, incoming requests can be processed in
the caller's context or in one of the internal SCST core's tasklets without any
diff --git a/www/mc_s.html b/www/mc_s.html
index baf268ba7..e5baa8e2d 100644
--- a/www/mc_s.html
+++ b/www/mc_s.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
therefore no extra context switches required.
Complete SMP support.
Undertakes most problems, related to execution contexts, thus practically eliminating one of the most
- complicated problem in the kernel drivers development. For example, a target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx cards,
+ complicated problem in the kernel drivers development. For example, a target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx adapters,
which has all necessary features, is about 2000 lines of code long, that is at least in several times less, than
the initiator one.
Performs all required pre- and post- processing of incoming requests and all necessary error recovery
diff --git a/www/scstvsstgt.html b/www/scstvsstgt.html
index af8b2c59b..c223e4702 100644
--- a/www/scstvsstgt.html
+++ b/www/scstvsstgt.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Target driver for Emulex lpfc FC/FCoE adapters is developed by the Emulex team.
+
+
The driver allows for lpfc adapters to be placed in initiator and/or target mode. Those in
+ initiator mode will continue to function with the SCSI subsystem as usual. A lpfc_scst helper
+ module is then loaded that binds that target mode adapters with the SCST subsystem
+ for use as FCP targets. NPIV is also supported, allowing virtual ports to be created with
+ individual SCST target instances bound to them.
+
+
The lpfc SCST driver kit is part of the lpfcxxxx SourceForge project located at
+ Emulex Linux Drivers page.
- Open-FCoE is an open source project implementing the Fibre Channel over Ethernet for the Linux operating system.
+ Open-FCoE is an open source project implementing the Fibre Channel over Ethernet for Linux.
It uses SCST framework to implement software FC target.
- Target driver for LSI/MPT cards was originally developed by Hu Gang, then Erik Habbinga has continued the development.
+ Target driver for LSI/MPT adapters was originally developed by Hu Gang, then Erik Habbinga has continued the development.
It supports parallel SCSI (SPI), including Wide SCSI, and Fibre Channel, but also should work with SAS. This driver is on the
alpha stage and available for download from the SCST SVN repository. See the download page how to setup access to it.
diff --git a/www/target_mvsas.html b/www/target_mvsas.html
index e918acf78..9bea7f608 100644
--- a/www/target_mvsas.html
+++ b/www/target_mvsas.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
- Target driver for Marvell SAS cards was developed by Marvell and Andy Yan. It is fully functional
+ Target driver for Marvell SAS adapters is developed by Marvell and Andy Yan. It is fully functional
SAS target driver.
It is on the beta stage. You can download it from the SCST SVN repository. See the download page how
diff --git a/www/target_old.html b/www/target_old.html
index d942d1af3..70e366460 100644
--- a/www/target_old.html
+++ b/www/target_old.html
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx cards for 2.4 kernels
+
Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx adapters for 2.4 kernels
- Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx cards is capable to work on 2.4 kernels.
+ Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx adapters is capable to work on 2.4 kernels.
It has all required features and looks to be quite stable. It is designed to work in conjunction with the
initiator driver, which is intended to perform all the initialization and shutdown tasks. In the current release as
a base for the initiator driver was taken Red Hat's driver from the stock 2.4.20 kernel. Then it was patched to
@@ -66,11 +67,11 @@
should work on any other supported by Linux platform.
Currently it is not supported and listed here for historical reasons only.
-
Target drivers for Adaptec 7xxx and QLogic QLA12xx cards
+
Target drivers for Adaptec 7xxx and QLogic QLA12xx adapters
- Target drivers for Adaptec 7xxx and QLogic QLA12xx cards have been developed by Hu Gang and they available for
+ Target drivers for Adaptec 7xxx and QLogic QLA12xx adapters have been developed by Hu Gang and they available for
download from http://bj.soulinfo.com/~hugang/scst/tgt/.
- These drivers are not completed, but looks to be a good starting point if you are going to use one of these cards.
+ These drivers are not completed, but looks to be a good starting point if you are going to use one of these adapters.
SCST team don't have the appropriate hardware, therefore have not tested and don't support these drivers.
Send all questions to Hu Gang . If some of these drivers don't compile for
you, try again with SCST version 0.9.3-pre2.
- Open-FCoE is an open source project implementing the Fibre Channel over Ethernet for the Linux operating system.
+ Open-FCoE is an open source project implementing the Fibre Channel over Ethernet for Linux.
It uses SCST framework to implement software FC target.
- Target driver for LSI/MPT cards was originally developed by Hu Gang, then Erik Habbinga has continued the development. 
- Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx cards is capable to work on 2.4 kernels.
+ Old target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx adapters is capable to work on 2.4 kernels.
It has all required features and looks to be quite stable. It is designed to work in conjunction with the
initiator driver, which is intended to perform all the initialization and shutdown tasks. In the current release as
a base for the initiator driver was taken Red Hat's driver from the stock 2.4.20 kernel. Then it was patched to
@@ -66,11 +67,11 @@
should work on any other supported by Linux platform.
- This is target driver for QLogic 22xx/23xx (qla2200/qla2300) Fibre Channel cards. It is stable and well tested.