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Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: ggated vs iscsi
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On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote:
> 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 ?
> >
> > Keep in mind that with ggate you'll need ggated on the exporting
> > machine and ggatec on the other. Likewise with iSCSI you'll need the
> > a _target_ (such as the one in net/iscsi-target) and an initiator,
> > which you get in 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.ht
>ml

I remember the thread (and the patch). Is there a PR for this or did you 
or someone else just pick it up directly?

JN