RE: ISCSI: need to fix handling of partial data transfers

[Paul Koning <ni1d@arrl.net>]

(changing the subject from: RE: sector alignment for DataOut PDUs?)

>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Satran <Julian_Satran@il.ibm.com> writes:

 Julian> Bob,

 Julian> That is a constraining design.  In all normal cases that will
 Julian> happen but in some designs the target may be willing to deal
 Julian> with less data than it requested.

 Julian> The target may be willing to create variable length records
 Julian> out of pieces of data.  There are perfectly legitimate
 Julian> applications for this and we don't need strong language to
 Julian> help the fixed length requirements for storage.

 Julian> A host that delivers data from memory will always deliver
 Julian> what it is requested.  But an initiator is not always a host.

If we want that case to be supported, then the spec must be changed to
require targets to accept that.

	paul