iSCSI @home anyone?

[Mtnduey]

Just curious if anyone out there has tried using iSCSI at home. I've been using it for a long time at work and it's great but I'm thinking of trying it at home.

Thoughts?

 

[unhappy_mage]

I've used it. I was unimpressed with performance and stability. Disks are best directly attached to a machine, or abstracted away with something like NFS or CIFS.

Also, note that using NTFS over iSCSI doesn't work---you will corrupt the filesystem fairly quickly. You need to share the drive another way if there is more than one machine mounting it.

 

[fibroptikl]

I've used it. I was unimpressed with performance and stability. Disks are best directly attached to a machine, or abstracted away with something like NFS or CIFS.

Also, note that using NTFS over iSCSI doesn't work---you will corrupt the filesystem fairly quickly. You need to share the drive another way if there is more than one machine mounting it.

That's nothing specific to NTFS - same for FAT32, ext2, ext3 - you'll need some special software in order to be able to do that.

 

[Mtnduey]

yeah you need the right iSCSI initiator installed to do it correctly, but we've been booting from iSCSI on Windows Servers the past several years.

I'm just thinking about different ways of setting up shares on a home server with a reasonably fast array. Was thinking of doing a folder redirect for the laptops/pc's to the share on the server