Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!)

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:48:27 +0100


On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 02:45:51PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote:

> > Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > > Please continue to think of TCP checksums as valid for a data transport,
> > > you data will be gone soon enough.
> > >
> > > Initiator == Controller
> > > Target == Disk
> > > iSCSI == cable or ribbon
> > >
> > > Please turn off the CRC on your disk drive and see if you still have data.
> >
> > This maybe works as PR, but otherwise it's crap.
>
> So, please turn off the CRC's in your onboard storage today and see how
> long it lasts.

1) Bad comparison.

2) It'd last very very long, because I never get a CRC error anyway.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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