ggated vs iscsi

[Ivan Voras]

John Nielsen wrote:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 04:53:55 pm Pete French wrote:
>> I want to take a disc partition on one box and make it available to
>> another box to be mounted. Under 7.0 it looks like I have a choice
>> of using either ggated to do this, or the new iscsis initiator. Does
>> anyone have any opinions on what is most reliable ? Instyinct says
>> iscsi as I have used that in the past, but I havent used the new
>> initiator yet. Any advice ?
> 
> Keep in mind that with ggate you'll need ggated on the exporting machine 
> and ggatec on the other. Likewise with iSCSI you'll need the a _target_ 
> (such as the one in net/iscsi-target) and an initiator, which you get in 
> the base system starting with FreeBSD 7.

According to at least two reports, iSCSI initiator in 7.0-RELEASE is
buggy and has problems that manifest in very low performance. There are
patches for it which should be committed soon.

See this thread:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2008-February/003383.html

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