Bart Van Assche wrote:
On Feb 5, 2008 6:50 PM, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For remotely accessing data, iSCSI+fs is quite simply more overhead than
a networked fs.  With iSCSI you are doing

        local VFS -> local blkdev -> network

whereas a networked filesystem is

        local VFS -> network

There are use cases than can be solved better via iSCSI and a
filesystem than via a network filesystem. One such use case is when
deploying a virtual machine whose data is stored on a network server:
in that case there is only one user of the data (so there are no
locking issues) and filesystem and block device each run in another
operating system: the filesystem runs inside the virtual machine and
iSCSI either runs in the hypervisor or in the native OS.

Hence the diskless root fs configuration I referred to in multiple emails... whoopee, you reinvented NFS root with quotas :)

        Jeff



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