Hello, iSCSI is just a transport method for SCSI commands. Same as Fibre Channel, SAS, etc..
When the network takes in the iSCSI packets, the SCSI commands and data are separated and they go to their respective devices or 'disks' in this case. Regards Don On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 1:40 PM Bobby <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Ulrich, > > Thanks for the hint. Can you please help me regarding following two > questions. > > - Linux block layer perform IO scheduling IO submissions to storage device > driver. If there is a physical device, the block layer interacts with it > through SCSI mid layer and SCSI low level drivers. So, how *actually* a > software initiator (*Open-iSCSI*) interacts with "*block layer*"? > > - What confuses me, where does the "*disk driver*" comes into play? > > Thanks :-) > > > >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "open-iscsi" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-iscsi/1972273e-83e5-4e7f-9c76-00d0deb31185%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-iscsi/1972273e-83e5-4e7f-9c76-00d0deb31185%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/open-iscsi/CAK3e-EZ9Wi3gsDEPgg5A-AArib_D9h_1VbQtPxp%3DM4tH%2Be_8tg%40mail.gmail.com.
