On 29/01/15 11:25, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to set up an iSCSI server (target in iSCSI terminology) running on > Gentoo. > Does anyone know which of the following 2 are better: > - sys-block/iscsitarget > - sys-block/targetcli > > Both don't seem to have had an update for over 2 years, but targetcli seems > to > be just the config-tool for whatever is in current kernels where, I think, > iscsitarget is a userspace daemon? > > Many thanks, > > Joost >
Hi, sys-block/iscsitarget is composed of a kernel module and a userspace daemon, both compiled and installed by the ebuild. I would second the recommendation for SCST, which is actively developed and in my experience is quite more stable and tends to recover better from unexpected events than sys-block/iscsitarget (I have used both for quite some time). The only downside of SCST is that it requires a bit more work to install, mainly because there is no ebuild for it; moreover, while it can be built against and run on a stock kernel, it comes with a couple of kernel patches which should be applied for optimal performance or are needed fot specific features (e.g. the vdisk backend). andrea
