Subject: Re: network-transparent devfs
To: Sascha Retzki <lantis@iqranet.info>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/24/2004 14:05:52
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On Nov 21, 2004, at 11:13 AM, Sascha Retzki wrote:

> Some scenarios you can come up with is network-storage computing. An 
> "exported"
> block device, maybe a RAID or a simple harddisk drive that is then 
> bound to a
> raid, everything over network.

Oh please no.  If you want this, then use a protocol designed / 
standardized for this, like iSCSI.

(Someone just needs to write an iSCSI initiator for NetBSD ... there 
are a plethora of iSCSI target devices out there that one can use for 
the actual block storage.)

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>


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