From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 15:10:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62127106566B for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:10:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB98B8FC14 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:10:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JXeCw-0007kd-TH for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:02 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:02 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:08:59 +0100 Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <200803061914.28851.john@jnielsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4868ABB00A9B5F43D2D04781" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <200803061914.28851.john@jnielsen.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: ggated vs iscsi X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:10:08 -0000 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--