[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Core-iSCSI/Nokia 770

[From: Jonathan Matthews-Levine]

On 3/30/06, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
> Can you say a little bit about the point of iscsi? What's the advantage
> of movie playback this way vs normal http or rtp streaming? Forgive my
> ignorance; I looked around a bit but didn't find much in the way of
> introductory literature.

I'd be interested in this, too.  The vast majority of the iSCSI stuff
I found online after reading the first email in this thread is either
concerned with NAS vs SAN, or ROI arguments, or other non-technical
points.  I'd be really keen to find out the benefits of iSCSI over,
say NFS, or HTTP streaming.

Many thanks!
Jonathan

PS I'd also /love/ to find out, definitively, if iSCSI *requires* a
physical SCSI disc, or if there's a glue layer on the server-side in
Linux that would let one run it on an IDE disk or RAID.

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