Re: Idle curiosity: Acting as a SCSI target

[Joshua MacDonald]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 04:38:31PM -0500, Eli Carter wrote:
> Based on a conversation I had recently, my curiosity got piqued...
> 
> I'm not really sure how to query google on this, and didn't turn up what 
> I was looking for because of that, so here's the random question:
> 
> Is there a way to make a Linux machine with a scsi controller act like a 
> scsi device (is the correct term 'target'?) (such as a disk) using a 
> local block device as storage?
> 
> I'm not sure it would be of general use, but I can see uses in weird or 
> remote prototyping situations...
> 
> Like the subject says, just idle curiosity; I don't see having much use 
> for it, but I was intrigued by the idea.

SCSI targets are also quite useful for testing disk-failure handling in file
systems, RAID devices, and databases...

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~abrown/papers/usenix00.pdf

-josh