Sorry, been meaning to respond, but then it slipped my mind. SAS is a viable COMSTAR target and there even was a SAS target driver for some LSI 1068-based chips in the old 2009-era OpenSolaris days, but ultimately that didn't lead anywhere and it fell by the wayside. But I understand your rationale. SAS is switched, it is multi-host, very low latency, high throughput and cheap, cheap, cheap. However, nobody appears to be working on a SAS target driver ATM, as far as I can tell.
-- Saso On 11/20/13, 2:11 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote: > No responses.... > Anybody? > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) >> [mailto:openindi...@nedharvey.com] >> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:35 AM >> To: 'openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org' >> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE vs Infiniband vs SCSI Target ... >> >> ZFS is great to manage backend storage in a SAN environment. So then >> you're likely to use 10GigE, or Infiniband as the transport... >> >> I only recently discovered SAS SFF-8088. Gives you 4x 6Gbit buses yielding >> 24 >> Gbit with very low overhead, low cost. A lot of performance for the buck. >> >> I also recently discovered Linux has something called SCST, a driver of >> sorts, >> that turns some linux HBA into a scsi target. Does openindiana have >> something similar? It would sure beat the pants off 10GigE, and while >> Infiniband would still be faster, it would be very useful to do the scsi >> target >> thing for smaller systems... >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
