From: Lars Kellogg-S. <la...@od...> - 2004-10-20 17:34:14
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> WHY do you enable SCSI? Uml does not manage physical hardware, so it is > useless. That is in fact not true. The primary motivation for my recent foray into UML was to test out Linux support for iSCSI...by building basic SCSI support into the kernel and then loading the iSCSI driver (from http://linux-iscsi.sourceforge.net/) as a module, I was able to mount a 500GB LUN server out from our Network Appliance filer. Our ultimate goal is to have an environment in which we can experiment with cluster filesystems, and by using iSCSI we can interact with *real* devices -- and continue to use them if we decide to introduce physical systems, instead of UML instances, into the mix. -- Lars |