Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:02:26 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ggated vs iscsi Message-ID: <200803071202.27215.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <fqrlip$n54$2@ger.gmane.org> References: <E1JXO2F-0003PY-5Q@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <200803061914.28851.john@jnielsen.net> <fqrlip$n54$2@ger.gmane.org>
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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
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