On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 17:53 -0400, Saxon, Will wrote:
>
> I think there may be very good reason to use iSCSI, if you're limited
> to gigabit but need to be able to handle higher throughput for a
> single client. I may be wrong, but I believe iSCSI to/from a single
> initiator can take advantage of multiple links in an active-active
> multipath scenario whereas NFS is only going to be able to take
> advantage of 1 link (at least until pNFS).
There are other ways to get multiple paths. First off, there is IP
multipathing. which offers some of this at the IP layer. There is also
802.3ad link aggregation (trunking). So you can still get high
performance beyond single link with NFS. (It works with iSCSI too,
btw.)
-- Garrett
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