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The 'target' moves slow so once you learn it, it all stays relevant forever. ... And it's very, very fun.
by burner420042 6mo ago
The 'target' moves slow so once you learn it, it all stays relevant forever.
... And it's very, very fun.
- Tepix 6mo agoDoes it offer performance advantages over NFS root?
- a96 6mo agoI kind of expect the performance is worse, but one neat thing is that iscsi is a block device, so you could run e.g. disk crypto, volume management or whatever on it. Not to mention any FS. And you don't need to deal with NFS or RPC.
- bobmcnamara 6mo agoDunno about performance vs NFS, but I've stuffed an unaware OS onto ZVOL-over-iSCSI using a NIC with option ROM.
- burner420042 6mo agoThey operate at different layers. iscsi is a block device: you gain a 'disk drive' sitting on your network. A dedicated network for disk traffic and use it to host on-prem virtualization. It's called a SAN array.
- Tepix 6mo agoSure, but eventually you will reach a layer with files, usually. Then you can run benchmarks and compare numbers.