On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 03:35:52PM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > being involved with the iSCSI initiator for FreeBSD, I can't see where > this can help for a diskless host, or in other words, what's > wrong with NFS?
Well, for one thing since iSCSI is designed for SAN use, the filesystem can safely assume that nothing else is accessing it concurrently and do a lot more aggressive caching. NFS has to play it safe and check with the server every time a file is accessed to make sure it hasn't changed. It sounds to me like the OP is thinking about servers in a large data center booting off an iSCSI SAN. Makes migrating off of dead hardware to a new machine (or even a VM) a snap. > also, the TOE cards are not that cheep either :-) my 2c, danny They're usually cheaper than fibre channel HBAs though ;-) Craig _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"