Hi, not just an illumos issue, but a general question about iscsi targets. I happened into a stupid event, because of my mistake. I forgot to allow iscsi initiator to listen on the SAN network only, so it was listening on the CIFS network too. I created some sample volumes and shared iscsi, without restricting them to a single client. Someone in the LAN enjoyed his Windows7 iscsi initiator and found the disks in the LAN, so he came to me and told me about his discovery, and I told him they were just sample for my tests and not to use them. He disconnected the iscsi initiator. Later, I attached these sample volumes to a Windows server, via direct iscsi from Windows (not a vmware one). So, the resource was NTFS formatted. After sometime, this volume became corrupted, the NTFS filesystem was a mess. I discovered that the boy's Windows7 remembered the initiator, and all by itself it discovered the resource, found that it was NTFS formatted, and decided it should be mounted automatically, with no question! The boy did not notice it for some hours, then he found the new disk in "My Computer". He disconnected again the resource, and found it was stored as a preferred destination (this doesn't mean you f*** windows are allowed to decide to mount everything NTFS around!!), removed it and came to me to warn me about it. What happened, is that his f*** windows7's antivirus started scanning the new disk with no advice, so corrupting... Now. I understand my fault. Did not let the initiator work only on the SAN network. Did not let the iscsi share be assigned to one and only iscsi client. But, my question is: What is the meaning of allowing an iscsi server initiator to allow the use of a raw shared device to multiple clients? Isn't this unsafe in any case? Anyway, Window's a f*** devil! ;) Gabriele.
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