2008/9/8 Will Murnane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> replacing the
> motherboard with a cheap Core 2 one significantly *improved*
> performance, despite limiting the controller to vanilla-PCI speeds.
> CPU usage wasn't really an issue, but speeds were nevertheless limited
> to 20 MB/s or so locally.  With the new motherboard I get about 70
> MB/s over network, mostly disk-limited.

That's interesting. Getting a new board and cheap modern cpu isn't
really an issue so i'll most likely do that. My old fileserver was
managing 500MB/sec burst and 300MB/sec sustained read (according to
hdtach) so i'd not like to be going completely backwards with my new
setup.


> You'll have to present part of the volume via iSCSI and part via NFS;
> they can't overlap.  Also, you must define how large an iSCSI volume
> you want up front.  Although you can resize it later, this will entail
> resizing the filesystem over network to allow the remote machine to
> use all the new space.

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean to use both protocols on the same
slice of storage


> If you assign an IP address to a single NIC, then all traffic will
> flow over that interface.  Trunking Intel interfaces is also possible,
> but if you don't want that to happen it won't by default.

Yes, I understand that. However, if I have two NIC's on two seperate
subnets and simply enable iSCSI, how do I bind it to only one of the
NIC's? I don't want the storage to be presented at all on the other
NIC(s). I'll go do some reading on it incase it's stupidly simple :)

Thanks all.
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