On Tue, 2013-01-29 at 11:13 -0800, Lee Duncan wrote: > Hi: > > I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently > realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets, > not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way > to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak > SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change). > > So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and > maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only > addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems > like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need > for such testing. > > It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI > tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and > manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and > what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for > discussion.
+1. Please count me in for this discussion. There are a number of CDB level tests that need to be added to scsi-testsuite.git, and I'd really love to get those interested working on a single codebase for SCSI target verification. --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
