On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Nathan Eisenberg <nat...@atlasnetworks.us> wrote: > iSCSI is relatively excellent - and as a block device, has great performance. > I've had less than pleasing results with AOE in several different use-cases. > > If you want to share the cache across multiple firewalls, NFS is your only > real choice of the 3.
I don't plan to access it other than from pfsense. I'm moving it external simply because I'm a lot more comfortable handling my SSD from Linux that I would be from pfsense. I'm referring specifically to TRIM support, IO schedulers and partition alignment. TRIM, I'm pretty sure, is not present in pfsense (not sure about FreeBSD). I know nothing at all about IO schedulers in FreeBSD. I've done some research on partition alignment using fdisk and disklabel, and although it appears doable, I'm left not knowing if I've actually done it right in pfsense. All these are non-issues for me in Linux. nfs is no problem for me to set up, but from what I've read I expected iSCSI and AOE to perform better under load. I'm surprised to read that you had poor results with AOE. I've never used it, but the theory appears to be sound. Can anybody tell me how hard it would be to turn pfsense into an iSCSI initiator? db --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: support-unsubscr...@pfsense.com For additional commands, e-mail: support-h...@pfsense.com Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
