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<h2 id=slogan>Generic SCSI Target Subsystem for Linux</h2>
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<h1>Target Drivers</h1>
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<h1>ISCSI target driver iSCSI-SCST</h1>
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<p><strong>ISCSI-SCST</strong> is a forked (with all respects) version of <strong>IET</strong> with updates to work
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over <strong>SCST</strong> as well as with many improvements and bugfixes. The reason of fork is that the necessary
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changes are intrusive and with the current <strong>IET</strong> merge policy, where only simple bugfix-like patches,
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which doesn't touch the core code, could be merged, it is very unlikely that they will be merged in the main
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<strong>IET</strong> trunk.</p>
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<p><strong>ISCSI-SCST</strong> has the following major advantages over <strong>IET</strong>. They are summarized on the
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<a href="comparison.html">Comparison</a> page.
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<li><span>ISCSI-SCST uses full power of <strong>SCST core</strong>, hence has the following additional features:
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<li><span><strong>Pass-through mode with one to many relationship</strong>, i.e. when multiple initiators can connect to
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exported pass-through devices. For instance, in this mode you can safely export your parallel
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<strong>SCSI tape</strong> or <strong>tape library</strong> on
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your iSCSI net and multiple initiators can share it without risk of data loss because of the
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shared usage. Existing outdated "rawio" patch for IET supports only non-enforced 1:1
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relationship, so it is unsafe to use it in multiple initiators environments.</span></li>
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<li><span><strong>More advanced devices visibility management</strong>, when different initiators can see different set of
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devices with different access permissions from the same target.</span></li>
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<li><span><strong>O_DIRECT</strong>, i.e. <strong>"BLOCKIO on files"</strong>, mode, which has all advantages
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of BLOCKIO, but also supports files on file systems. Sometimes, in the appropriate cases,
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this mode can make performance difference in 100% or even more.</span></li>
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<li><span><strong>4KB blocks</strong> eliminate abysmal write performance caused by misaligned partitions.
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</span></li>
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<li><span><strong>Virtual CD/DVD-ROMs</strong>.</span></li>
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<li><span>Ability to create target devices emulators in the <strong>user space</strong>.</span></li>
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<li><span>Ability to create <strong>multi-transport SCSI targets</strong>, which can export (possibly, the same)
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devices over multiple transports.</span></li>
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</ul>
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</span></li>
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<li><span>ISCSI-SCST has many code improvements and cleanups, including <strong>stability</strong>
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and <strong>iSCSI RFC violations fixes</strong>.
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IET works well on "fast" paths and regularly used code branches, but in many corner
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cases it has various problems, from simply ignoring error processing, as it is for memory
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allocations, and crashing itself with BUG() macro, as it is for malformed packets from initiators, to possible data
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corruption. See, for instance, <a href="http://communities.vmware.com/thread/53797?tstart=0&start=15">this</a>
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thread on a VMware forum about in which <strong>Russian roulette</strong> IET users play using it with VMware.</span></li>
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<li><span>Due to reworked I/O architecture and SCST backend iSCSI-SCST has much
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better performance in many cases and has potential for future improvements, like <strong>zero-copy
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with Linux cache FILEIO</strong>. In many tests iSCSI-SCST outperforms tuned for best
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performance IET on <strong>more than 100%</strong>.
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</ul></p>
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<p>If you are an IET user before installation carefully read README files of both iSCSI-SCST and
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the SCST core. Especially pay attention that now the LUN information for iSCSI-SCST is configured not using
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iscsi-scstd.conf file in /etc, but using corresponding SCST facilities. This is because now the responsibilities
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are divided (as it should be) between the target driver (iSCSI-SCST) and the SCST core: target driver is
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responsible for handling targets and their parameters, SCST core is responsible for handling backstorage.</p>
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<p>The latest stable version is 1.0.1. Requires Linux kernel version 2.6.16.x or higher and SCST version 1.0.1 or higher.
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Tested mostly on i386 and x86_64, but should work on any other supported by Linux platform.</p>
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<p>You can find the latest development version of this driver in the SCST SVN. See the download page how to setup
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access to it.</p>
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