> On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 23:40 +0400, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote:
>> James Bottomley, on 08/23/2010 08:59 PM wrote:
>> > My basic conclusion was that there's no incredible discriminator between
>> > LIO and STGT (although there are reams written on which performs better
>> > in which circumsances, is useful for clustering, supports ALUA, etc.
>> > each with partisans for the features).
>>
>> Here is a comprehensive features comparison I prepared some time ago:
>>
http://scst.sourceforge.net/comparison.html. It's a bit outdated at the
>> moment, but I'm going to make it completely up do date in the next few days.
>
> That's not really going to help ... I don't really want another 500 mail
> thread of partisan yelling about which is better. I'm happy to concede
> that either could beat the other on a given set of well chosen tests ...
> but knowing that is completely useless to me. I can also guess, given
> the antipathy, that neither of you would agree on a definitive set of
> comparison tests.
>
> So it comes down to a community test instead: which works better with
> the community. This is important to me because it's an indication of
> what might ensue once code goes upstream and thus moves outside the
> exclusive province of the project to become a community resource. STGT
> is a community too and so far what you seem to have told me is:
>
> * STGT users should just migrate to scst_local
> * STGT doesn't have enough users to bother with
> * STGT has fundamental design flaws which makes its pass through
> architecture unusable and its ABI flawed.
>
> I'm sure STGT appreciates the frank assessments, but it doesn't seem to
> merit too many "plays well with others" points.
