From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 10 03:31:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C7916A407 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:31:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: from ecluster6.tls.net (ecluster6.tls.net [65.196.224.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EFFD613C458 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:31:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dave.list@pixelhammer.com) Received: (qmail 35051 invoked by uid 89); 10 Jan 2007 03:30:13 -0000 Received: from 208-70-43-96.bb.hrtc.net (HELO ?192.168.0.103?) (ldg%tls.net@208.70.43.96) by auth-ecluster6.tls.net with SMTP; 10 Jan 2007 03:30:13 -0000 Message-ID: <45A45DFD.5090008@pixelhammer.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:31:09 -0500 From: DAve User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Free BSD Questions list References: <45A2A0E6.7090202@pixelhammer.com> <200701081508.20632.lists@jnielsen.net> <45A399BD.9080707@pixelhammer.com> <20070109163557.GH41724@dan.emsphone.com> <45A3CD67.6000108@pixelhammer.com> <898F3915436B3C86F366BA37@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <898F3915436B3C86F366BA37@ganymede.hub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: iSCSI X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:31:21 -0000 Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > - --On Tuesday, January 09, 2007 12:14:15 -0500 DAve > wrote: > >> That was my thought as well. I have my pop toasters all mounting a NFS mail >> store and when NFS goes away I don't have my NFS clients doing a fsck when >> the mount returns. >> >> Not sure if that is important as iSCSI is all new to me, still reading up on >> it. Does FreeBSD do anything special to a NFS mount when it returns? > > 'k, maybe I'm misunderstanding things, but iSCSI != NFS I never said it was, my rather poor example (I said I was new to iSCSI) was if a remote file system crashes, who should fsck it? The server (Target) or the client (Initiator)? > ... iSCSI is just > removing your SCSI drives from your local server and putting them in a > different location (over an ethernet connection) ... with NFS, you have one > server to which multiple clients can connect ... with iSCSI, you have a > one-to-one mapping of a file system on the 'target' to the server in question > ... so, again, it was my understanding that stuff like an fsck is the > responsibility of the server, not the target, same as if the SCSI drives were > local to the server ... As I thought. However, I clearly don't know much about iSCSI, though I know more with every page I read. I will always defer to those with experience, which is why I ask (sometimes stupid) questions ;^) DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.