On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Aman Singla wrote:
> I think Larry's description (below) about how STP works is pretty
> much accurate modulo 'various levels of details / mechanisms' but
> hey, thats what protocol spec's are for :-)
> http://www.hippi.org/cST.html
>
> The STP Long Message Transfer stuff is realized to be useful for
> network enabled storage - may it be through higher performance
> solutions in the upper layer - NFS/BDS etc., or via the lower layers
> like SCSI over STP.
>
> What I'd like to add is, that STP also specifies persistent (longer
> duration - spanning multiple messages) mappings and pinning down of
> memory which is useful for low latency communications a'la clustering
> applications. Again, what STP offers here is an open, media-independent
> and scalable protocol.
>
> Are there any other applications that people can forsee?
DRBD (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/)
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