> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Linder, Doug > > On a related note - all other things being equal, is there any reason > to choose NFS over ISCI, or vice-versa? I'm currently looking at this
iscsi and NFS are completely different technologies. If you use iscsi, then all the initiators (clients) are the things which format and control the filesystem. So the limitations of the filesystem are determined by whichever clustering filesystem you've chosen to implement. It probably won't do snapshots and so forth. Although the ZFS filesystem could make a snapshot, it wouldn't be automatically mounted or made available without the clients doing explicit mounts... With NFS, the filesystem is formatted and controlled by the server. Both WAFL and ZFS do some pretty good things with snapshotting, and making snapshots available to users without any effort. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
