From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 16:39:41 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C07716A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:39:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 980A843D70 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:39:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [80.192.2.225] ([80.192.2.225]) by smtp-out2.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:40:30 +0000 Message-ID: <438349C8.5020502@dial.pipex.com> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:39:36 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051106 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wojciech Puchar References: <43824EF0.8090807@endries.org> <20051122002352.G75644@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051122062506.GD13838@yoafrica.com> <20051122121855.J89225@chylonia.3miasto.net> <20051122160343.GB6893@dan.emsphone.com> <20051122171702.H9431@chylonia.3miasto.net> In-Reply-To: <20051122171702.H9431@chylonia.3miasto.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Nov 2005 16:40:30.0929 (UTC) FILETIME=[739C1410:01C5EF83] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:39:41 -0000 Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the >> client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file >> it's currently accessing has changed. > > > any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it. > anyway this asking isn't bandwidth intensive, while adds delays. and > it may affect of transfer speed for ONE process reading one file, but > not multiuser system. Regardless of whether iSCSI is any good, it's a common access method for SAN devices, and from what I've been told, may be the *only* access method. So in heterogenous (read windows dominated) environment where you want to be able to access these things, an iSCSI initiator for FreeBSD can only be a good thing. --Alex