From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752377AbcAVERg (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:17:36 -0500 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.135]:62081 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751756AbcAVER0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jan 2016 23:17:26 -0500 Message-ID: <56A1AD48.5040104@vlnb.net> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 20:17:12 -0800 From: Vladislav Bolkhovitin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scst-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org Subject: [ANNOUNCE]: SCST 3.1 release Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:ZQdoFQoC63gpUt57Umhp0O2pRkRAe/ntoiXX4Wp3e1eyKFFMFvP OcfFFOb9XhWaFYBjlTMo0eT4YNR9hnoWwyWrSz9hViD/GS/ddB2aIsFo6YT1DNfM9Xa+GA0 Df+mt6PEIL/zK1WaVaI4mkrnOPr7CNUF0A6cQmimoKIKmFyUfM/m64F9zIolwPZ4ukrAiQ+ jEqAeXaLtyLVzm99lT3Yg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:w51QXrT1Pgg=:E5UV3iWqthJinBMQstTyjb obVQc7lMsJF/AYTi+OUNnUqzytTHM/lrcrrkbS6KxHvDY+gh+BLr4t4+Xmv1iBl3n5oMYO+3s 3DHXSkiO+7xcDiAPGPTRaoy8DlhjrBRgS42F7IDBXxmRcBh6aiaBkydgD/FCZf8JUxQWJXRIr Hy7ZSN0a83ekrSeAG9KLbSbsvnNuKhq+n+eQldk9M11WFRxXzh58bX0/QA9Aw/eB4R+JGRudE ZjoJKNNek27+UMtznjFsmC/k1u5YyDNYJ8HQGBbal7B/ZRUuhIm37TFifHTquWVzXEKOcxkvc YVfSLm+KO/f6eDMpZetnnDxauT5P1VuujQNgmX9/2iJVnO8ngCzCiP0vpEIop7xnPyOm8Bynv UvpQ7a7BdUeMVlIKHlrhnaViRu7Wq7/Q7ib3VCKnC5gfrGjxHGUTSyygi821MTlnKdxFYW2J7 UtE+j8WXWazluAkjFxe3O0+6N+U5HJoAQNgmbDMFbJrdQ1w8kyn26hh09IdV/1637kL5P6HIf V/1ZOvjNNNVOQklPkMcM99dFV+H0Sn6D1y3AGw0pjq65nHd+xRYp5vyADPa/0KKwocng4r/vf 1H7/vHEbyknb5+yed0qw88XPmem65RIoWsxyJE2qzUffhxiPvu8FXYvs2QQHp9VK8HLmKerdK 9PC6tKT0nZQ8SpxQgPe1s45hXnpVlNh1G/4JvoVi86aUlWkQcrf9fgCPF69qNWcIFs5LmjqV+ BRjcIEl/A9vKRlxw Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi All, I'm glad to announce that SCST version 3.1 has just been released and available for download from http://scst.sourceforge.net/downloads.html. Highlights for this release: - Cluster support for SCSI reservations. This feature is essential for initiator-side clustering approaches based on persistent reservations, e.g. the quorum disk implementation in Windows Clustering. - Full support for VAAI or vStorage API for Array Integration: Extended Copy command support has been added as well as performance of WRITE SAME and of Atomic Test & Set, also known as COMPARE AND WRITE, has been improved. - T10-PI support has been added. - ALUA support has been improved: explicit ALUA (SET TARGET PORT GROUPS command) has been added and DRBD compatibility has been improved. - SCST events user space infrastructure has been added, so now SCST can notify a user space agent about important internal and fabric events. - QLogic target driver has been significantly improved. SCST is alternative SCSI target stack for Linux. SCST allows creation of sophisticated storage devices, which can provide advanced functionality, like replication, thin provisioning, deduplication, high availability, automatic backup, etc. Majority of recently developed SAN appliances, especially higher end ones, are SCST based. It might well be that your favorite storage appliance running SCST in the firmware. More info about SCST and its modules you can find on: http://scst.sourceforge.net Thanks to all who made it happen, especially to SanDisk for the great support! All above highlights development was supported by SanDisk. Vlad