Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
can't be iSCSI client, but iscsi-target is userlevel app, you may run on any FreeBSD (most probably under any unix). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: iSCSI support

2008-10-30 Thread Chris St Denis
Jeff Chen - PTT 陳龍焜 wrote: Hi, My company is a storage RAID system company. There is one customer ask iSCSI solution with my production of my company with FreeBSD 6.1. But I found some information in the Internet, the iSCSI full support on FreeBSD is 7.0. Is it mean FreeBSD 6.1 can’t

Re: iSCSI support..

2006-10-12 Thread Josef Grosch
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:37:27PM -0700, Jeff Mohler wrote: Freebsd ever hope to have a stable supported iscsi layer? Thanks for any hints. I plan to starting testing FreeBSD 6.2 (when it is released) and iSCSI within the next few weeks. We have seattled on an HP DL360 with a Broadcom NIC

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-23 Thread Richard Burakowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 3 datacentres connected by 12 core gig fibre (only using one pair at the moment, but the fibre is there for future use) each connected directly to the others. I want a system that I can start off with one disk server in one datacentre, and then step it up to

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
from people. ICBW but to me it seems that iSCSI is like a distributed NFS backend. You can store the data on multiple devices, in multiple forms (as long as they all talk iSCSI). You can also have two storage sites (geographically separate) connected by fibre and use those for storage. same

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Wojciech Puchar said: from people. ICBW but to me it seems that iSCSI is like a distributed NFS backend. You can store the data on multiple devices, in multiple forms (as long as they all talk iSCSI). You can also have two storage sites (geographically

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just a cheap PC with cheap IDE drives.. Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it.

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it. anyway this

RE: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Ansar Mohammed
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI support and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD in the works. stupid

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
affect of transfer speed for ONE process reading one file, but not multiuser system. Regardless of whether iSCSI is any good, it's a common access method for SAN devices, and from what I've been told, may be the *only* access method. So AFAIK it's SCSI over FC, SCSI over IP was next probably

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread oxo
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 07:13:45PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anyway - for already existing iSCSI devices driver won't hurt of course, but i'm sure nobody that understand things won't invest in such technologies. I've been looking at iSCSI, but if someone can suggest a better alternative

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD in the works. stupid question: can anyone explain me the sense and adventages

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread John Oxley
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:24:49AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD in the

Re: iSCSI support?

2005-02-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 28), Sam Farmer said: What version(s) of FreeBSD, if any, support iSCSI storage connectivity? Is there an open source FreeBSD iSCSI driver which would work with ethernet adapters listed on the hardware compatibility lists? Do FreeBSD drivers exist for iSCSI HBAs by

Re: iSCSI support in FreeBSD?

2004-06-21 Thread K. Greenwood
--- Forrest Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there planned iSCSI support in FreeBSD 4 or 5. Well... no one else has responded. Considering I have nil experience, all I can do is offer links. http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040405125530.14f97d7a And you can navigate to...