On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:27:57AM -0500, Mouse wrote: > >> [iSCSI initiator support?] > > > I'm pretty sure iscsi-initiator support is only provided for NetBSD > > through the netbsd-iscsi-initiator package in the net category of the > > pkgsrc tree. Because it relies on the fuse interface to get its work > > done, I am also pretty sure the earliest version of NetBSD on which > > it will work is NetBSD-5. > > Hm, fuse...does this mean iSCSI disk can be used only for a filesystem, > rather than just appearing as another disk drive? That's what the fuse > documentation makes it look like; it looks as though it operates at the > filesystem layer, not the disk-device layer. Am I missing something?
No, it presents as a block device; it just uses fuse as "transport". There's more information on running the iscsi initiator using a cgd on top: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/encrypted-iscsi.html If you want the in-kernel iscsi initiator, it arrived in NetBSD 6.0. Regards, Alistair