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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/19]: SCST SYSFS interface implementation
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On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> This is quite unfortunate as I still have not seen the public comparison
> of the 2 implementations and the lists of benefits and shortfalls for
> both of them.

The reason why we are proposing SCST for upstream inclusion are:
- It has a large user base.
- The project is known for its high performance, low latency I/O and
excellent stability.
- A feature-wise overview can be found here:
http://scst.sourceforge.net/comparison.html.

Bart.