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On 11/26/2012 07:25 PM, Huang Zhiteng wrote:
> This looks great!  Supporting new target is definitely helpful to
> Cinder. I can't wait to try it out.  And I'm wondering if you could
> introduce a little bit more on LIO, like what's advantage compared to
> TGT, IET.
> 
> One dumb question regarding to 'targetd' though, in its readme, it
> claimed itself as 'pre-alpha', is it ready to use?

We got turned on to targetd by its author.  I CC'd him on this message.
 Hopefully he can comment further on the development status of targetd.

It's worth noting that we also did some looking at direct LIO support
using python-rtslib.  The major downside of that is that cinder-volume
would require root access.  LIO support via targetd makes the driver
work much more like other drivers managing remote storage resources.

-- 
Russell Bryant