RE: iSCSI: question on reserve and release !

["YP Cheng" <ycheng@matissenetworks.com>]

It is not very practical to try and map 10's or 100's of iSCSI hosts to 15
bits on a parallel SCSI bus. The gateway can maintain additional
reserve/release state and filter the commands thru the gateway to make this
work properly. Basically the gateway ends up maintaining the reservation for
the parallel SCSI device.

John Tyndall

I am in agreement with the above statement.  With the recommended
implementation, the gateway device of iSCSI to parallel SCSI becomes a
"broker" who on behalf of many initiators does a single reservation to the
target device.  As far as the target device is concerned, it still deals
with 15 maximum possible initiators.

Y.P. Cheng
Chief Scientist, Matisse Networks.