Hi,
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 15:18 schrieb Alvin Starr:
> Per Andreas Buer wrote:
> > I guess gnbd can be a drop-in replacement for iSCSI. I would think
> > performance is better as gnbd is written for the Linux kernel - the
> > SCSI protocol is written for hardware. I _know_ gnbd is easier to set
> > up. You just point the client to the server and the client populates
> > /dev/gnbd/ with the named entries (the devices are given logical names
> > - no SCSI buses, devices or LUNS).
> If I remember correctly gnbd is not quite the same as iscsi. When I
> looked into using gnbd I figured I could not create a target disk device
> that would present 10-20 unique devices to the xen clients.
> I am using lvm to break apart a set of disks and then presenting each
> volume as a separate iscsi target.
as far as i read the docs of gnbd the only limitation is a unique name for 
each gnbd device. You probably could include the hostname in the gnbd 
devices?
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greetings
eMHa

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