support fabrics other than iscsi

[agrover]

like fcoe, fc, etc.

[kirantpatil]

how about support for nfs and cifs?

[agrover]

@kirantpatil that's a whole nother thing -- alternate fabrics besides iscsi are already supported in LIO, which is what targetd is using. File-based protocols would involve some different mechanism, on the backend. The good news is that libsm does support file-based protocols, so if targetd added support, we could still present a unified interface via libsm/lsmcli.

[kirantpatil]

thanks for clarification.

There is one more fabric, it is AOE (ata over ethernet).

Have you ever thought of supporting it?

[agrover]

I think it would be a welcome addition to the kernel target, but nobody has championed its development.