Thought I'd give the living room Mac Mini something to back itself up onto, using their "Time Machine" backup software. Having lots of storage attached to my Sun Blade 2000 (via an LSI logic SAS card) controlled by zfs (so carving out a chunk is easy), I thought I'd give it a try to just hand the Mac an iSCSI "disk", thus keeping the additional clutter and noise of a USB drive out of the living room.
Very easy to set up (create the zvol, share it). Seems I had to restart the iscsitgtd service for some reason, but after that, it was fine. It did show me that my Wi-Fi performance was poor, so I got a better antenna and will put up a shelf to put the router up higher. :-) That's also to keep the retries down enough that it doesn't block the Bluetooth keyboard+mouse. Of course, in case I ever had to do a massive reload, I might be wise to make myself some sort of recovery CD of my own, since the iSCSI initiator for the Mac was an add-on. But I've only had the Mac for a week, haven't gotten quite _that_ far yet. I did have one occasion where Time Machine gave up because it thought the "disk" went read-only, but restarting iscsitgtd and rebooting the Mac took care of that. Never did tell why that happened, hasn't (yet) happened again. So...success, pretty much. Thought that might be interesting. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
