On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de> wrote: > Do you have any performance numbers showing why the addition of the > code is nessecary over just using the kernel iscsi initiator? Which > btw, is a lot more flexible as it also supports SG_IO passthrough > and thus accessing other devices not supporting the SBC command set.
With userspace iSCSI initiator support setup becomes easy, portable, and doesn't require admin privileges: qemu -drive file=iscsi:... That's pretty compelling. I don't know if people who already use iSCSI today will want to switch but it provides an easy entry into iSCSI. Stefan
