Hypothetical iSCSI Question

[The Hunter]

This is largely hypothetical, but I had a thought and couldn't find an answer to it via googling.

If you export a volume on a physical drive via iSCSI, if you yanked that drive and put it in another machine or external enclosure, would it be readable as any other standard hard drive? My iSCSI knowledge is pretty limited, but from what I understand, it's just a block protocol basically, so it seems like this sort of thing should work, but I don't really have the knowledge or practical experience to say for sure.

I figured that this could be used to do something like do network Time Machine backups of a Mac to a Linux server (which can be done via unsupported hack, but has some issues), and then pop the drive out and take it along if you're going on the road. As I said, not something I'm really looking to implement, but it would be interesting.

 

[AreEss]

Depends on the iSCSI initiator. As far as iSCSI goes, it's very very simple.
This isn't an iSCSI question.
iSCSI is a transport, that's it. If you take a SATA disk from one system to another, does it work? Same rules apply. Initiator just makes the drive visible as an iSCSI device.