Not to disagree too strongly with Marco but XFS is perfectly fine. All you are doing with ISCSI is presenting the disk as a block device over the network. Imagine it like you are using a USB external drive only instead of using a USB bus you are using an ethernet switch.
ISCSI is perfect for attaching large block devices inside virtual machines (or physical) and that is what I was doing for two years prior to switching to Bareos. I am now using a 24 Slot LTO 6 auto-changer . With a 20 TB internal spool and dump partition for my Storage Daemon Server.) I also have a 28TB ISCSI NAS being used as a data store to backup roughly 34 different servers. I get between 90 and 120MBs transfer speed. If you are worried about performance stick it on its own interface or VLAN. In my opinion you only run all of the same problems that you would with a regular external hard disk/raid unit. If it loses power or you pull out the USB/FibreC/FW cord without un-mountng it expect the same problems you would with USB. I had the exact same concerns as you when i first started using ISCSI but i have found them all to be unfounded. It is a rock solid technology with great performance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
