Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
On 07/03/2008, John Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 March 2008 10:08:59 am Ivan Voras wrote: > > 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 c

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
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 eit

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 07 March 2008 11:25:39 am Pete French wrote: > > 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

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> 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.html Thanks

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Pete French
> 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 y

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-07 Thread Ivan Voras
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 >> anyo

Re: ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-06 Thread John Nielsen
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 wh

ggated vs iscsi

2008-03-06 Thread Pete French
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