Re: Linux and system area networks

[Bernd Eckenfels <W1012@lina.inka.de>]

In article <52d77o46ra.fsf@love-boat.topspincom.com> you wrote:
> We seem to have come full circle.  My original question was about
> providing a better way for sockets applications to take advantage of
> SAN hardware.  W2K Datacenter introduces "Winsock Direct," which will
> bypass the protocol stack when appropriate.  The Infiniband people are
> working on a "Sockets Direct" standard, which is a similar idea.  No
> one seems to care about this for Linux.

Well, there is some work done by the zero-copy folks and the sendfile()
function. Realy much more than a mmaped network socket is not needed.

Besides it looks like SAN will go all the way in the IP Direction sooner or
later anyway :)

There are some interesting Features like accessing MS SQL 7.0 Server via VIA
architecture interfaces over SAN, I am not sure o how open VIA is.

Greetings
Bernd