>
>
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Matt Mackall wrote:
>>
>> But ATAoE is boring because it's not IP. Which means no routing,
>> firewalls, tunnels, congestion control, etc.
>
> The thing is, that's often an advantage. Not just for performance.
>
>> NBD and iSCSI (for all its hideous growths) can take advantage of these
>> things.
>
> .. and all this could equally well be done by a simple bridging protocol
> (completely independently of any AoE code).
>
> The thing is, iSCSI does things at the wrong level. It *forces* people to
> use the complex protocols, when it's a known that a lot of people don't
> want it.
>
> Which is why these AoE and FCoE things keep popping up.
>
> It's easy to bridge ethernet and add a new layer on top of AoE if you need
> it. In comparison, it's *impossible* to remove an unnecessary layer from
> iSCSI.
>
> This is why "simple and low-level is good". It's always possible to build
> on top of low-level protocols, while it's generally never possible to
> simplify overly complex ones.
>
> Linus
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