Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:08:59 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ggated vs iscsi Message-ID: <fqrlip$n54$2@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200803061914.28851.john@jnielsen.net> References: <E1JXO2F-0003PY-5Q@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <200803061914.28851.john@jnielsen.net>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4868ABB00A9B5F43D2D04781 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Nielsen wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote: >> I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to >> another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice >> of using either ggated to do this, or the new iscsis initiator. Does >> anyone have any opinions on what is most reliable ? Instyinct says >> iscsi as I have used that in the past, but I havent used the new >> initiator yet. Any advice ? >=20 > Keep in mind that with ggate you'll need ggated on the exporting machin= e=20 > and ggatec on the other. Likewise with iSCSI you'll need the a _target_= =20 > (such as the one in net/iscsi-target) and an initiator, which you get i= n=20 > the base system starting with FreeBSD 7. According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are patches for it which should be committed soon. See this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html= --------------enig4868ABB00A9B5F43D2D04781 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0VqLldnAQVacBcgRAtUvAKCVQyCJt4GFKjK4t3sETzDA+3ZGaACg4znK AqfgwFJ+O4idA+uCmUoo23E= =mBql -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4868ABB00A9B5F43D2D04781--
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