Craig Tinson wrote:
<snip>
I have the MS initiator installed on one machine (a MS Media Center)
that can quite happily connect to it (as a R: drive) and it's created
an NTFS filesystem on it which it is quite happily saving recordings to.
All well so far.
But when I try this on another xp machine I was expecting to see those
files that have been saved. But it's empty and asks me to format a new
filesystem. Obviously I don't want to do that but I did give it a try.
and it completed it. <snip>
As these are both Windows machines, you should use a CIFS/SMB export
from the Openfiler box. So far, this is not a good use of iSCSI.
iSCSI has its uses (low-cost SAN-like devices), but this isn't one of
them. iSCSI *is* useful where you want to build a clustered service of
some kind (an Oracle RAC-configured database is a classic example).
Windows (of any version) seems incapable of supporting shared storage
throughout a cluster. Windows 2003 server uses cluster services to
ensure only one machine in a given cluster has write access to the
shared media at any given time; third-party software/filesystems can be
used to work around this limitation. Non-native Windows filesystems for
shared/cluster storage are available from Veritas, and others, for
scandalous prices...
See:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/e454e4a9-625e-421c-9dd2-907f0f2cbe601033.mspx
Don't take my word on Windows clusters as gospel by any means, YMMV.
Richard
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