Egoitz Aurrekoetxea
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> El 20/10/2014, a las 14:34, Mark Felder <f...@freebsd.org> escribió:
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014, at 02:09, Egoitz Aurrekoetxea wrote:
>> Good morning,
>> 
>> I would recommend you using NFS instead of iSCSI. It’s far more better to
>> handle the connection to disk arrays (the FreeNAS in this situation)
>> through a mature and stable protocol like NFS
>> and not something manipulating blocks directly. I would advise you to
>> rely the responsibility of serving the SR to NFS. 
>> 
> 
> You can't have redundant paths with NFS (in FreeBSD), though. I'm not so
> sure everyone would agree that NFS is mature and stable, either :-)


Sure you can have redundant paths with a proper configuration with Spanning 
tree… and everything not touching directly blocks
is IMHO always safer… because the part you rely the disks integrity is all in 
the same place… and takes care of committing changes
properly having less probabilities to leave the vdi corrupt….

Faster??… how have you written to disk?? the file system you have used to which 
NFS was doing I/O how did it manage the write commits?. Did 
you use Jumbo frames?… there is pretty relative all that you have said… And 
IMHO yes, NFS is tested and tried (mainly in some versions and configs) 
very extensively and with very high loads… apart nowadays 10gbps switches 
exist...

> 
> My personal experience with building a Xen+FreeBSD cluster concluded
> that NFS was far too slow and unreliable, and a properly configured
> iSCSI with multiple paths and proper alignment was extremely fast.
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