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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
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Subject: Re: ggated vs iscsi
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> Last time I used it the iscsi-target port had some significant bugs, but 
> looking through cvs it looks like those may have been addressed. I can't 
> really speak to performance. Reliability should be all right as long as 
> you don't have frequent network issues.

Thanks for the warning - do you have any refernces for these bugs ? I
have been using the iscsi-target for a while and never come across
anything problematic, but I havent really hammered it hard as yet.

Am currently playing around with using gmirror on a pair of iscsi
drives mounted using iscsi_initiator/iscsi-target and it seems to
work rather nicely actually. Reconnest if I disconnect a drive,
performance is O.K., and it appears to behave itself. I would rather
use ZFS on top, but I am not sure I *quite* trust it yet after some of
the comments on here and my own expeineces, so gmirror it is for now.

-pete.