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On 9/10/2013 7:04 PM, Rick Macklem wrote:
> Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> On 9/10/2013 6:42 PM, Barney Cordoba wrote:
>>> NFS has been broken since Day 1, so lets not come to conclusions
>>> about
>>> anything
>>> as it relates to NFS.
>>
>> iSCSI is NFS ?
>>
> It would be really nice if you could try trasz`s new iSCSI stack and
> see how well it works. (I, for one, am hoping it makes it into 10.0,
> but it may be too late.)

I was only doing limited testing of iSCSI both as target and initiator.
 I was a little disappointed at the slow speeds I was getting.  Noticing
the thread about TSO, I thought it would be interesting to test and sure
enough it did make a difference.

IIRC, the new iSCSI stack is currently tested more for correctness than
performance?


	---Mike


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