We'd like to improve the performance of our iSCSI SAN (who doesn't, really?). iSCSI has abunch of tuning parameters with names like 'InitialR2T', but in orderto sensibly touch those you need at least enough knowledge of the iSCSIprotocol to get yourself into trouble. So I have been digging into iSCSIand thus into SCSI, and now I feel like writing down what I've learnedand worked out before it all falls out of my head again.

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Another season brings another set of snapshots, just like last time , except that this has been extended and slow enoughthat this a lot more than first episodes by now.

Shows I've seen, more or less in the order seen:

• Dog Days : It's a refreshing change when the summoned hero is bothcompetent and enthusiastic about his new situation. Apart from that,this is lightweight but cheerful and fun. Honestly, there's a lot tobe said for that.

• Sengoku Otome Momoiro Paradox :

In the first part I covered how the __slots__ instance attributes were stored (in an ad-hoc array of pointers thatis glued on the end of instance objects), but that's only half of thepuzzle. The other half is letting people access them, and that's whatthis entry is about.

As it happens, it's reasonably common in CPython for C-level types towant to give people Python-level access to fields in C structures,common enough that