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Re: iSCSI target for kfreebsd



Wiadomość napisana przez Arno Töll w dniu 2011-05-02, o godz. 00:17:
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> Hello,
> 
> kfreebsd misses an iSCSI target so far. This would be an useful addition
> to kfreebsd and its ZFS support. Indeed many people I encountered so far
> which were trying out kfreebsd ask for ZFS and occasionally for iSCSI
> support as well.
> 
> The only packages available in kfreebsd right now are
> iscsitarget-(dkms|source). As you may derive from their names, those
> packages are not at all useful for kfreebsd as they are tightly linked
> with the Linux kernel and exist on kfreebsd only because no one cared to
> implement "architecture: linux-all" so far.
> 
> FreeBSD has two iSCSI targets available: "iscsi-target"
> (/usr/ports/net/iscsi-target) and "istgt" (/usr/ports/net/istgt/) (learn
> more on [1]). I tried to compile the latter and it works out of the box
> on kfreebsd. Therefore istgt could provide an iSCSI target for Debian
> without too much effort.

Three, actually - there is also iSCSI Enterprise Target (net/iet),
and from what I've heard, it may soon become the most important one.

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