On Thu, 31 May 2007, Darren J Moffat wrote:

Since you are doing iSCSI and may not be running ZFS on the initiator (client) then I highly recommend that you run with IPsec using at least AH (or ESP with Authentication) to protect the transport. Don't assume that your network is reliable. ZFS won't help you here if it isn't running on the

[Hi Darren]

Thats a curious recommendation! You don't think that TCP/IP is reliable enough to provide iSCSI data integrity?
What errors and error rates have you seen?

iSCSI initiator, and even if it is it would need two targets to be able to repair.

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