iSCSI is relatively excellent - and as a block device, has great performance. I've had less than pleasing results with AOE in several different use-cases.
If you want to share the cache across multiple firewalls, NFS is your only real choice of the 3. > -----Original Message----- > From: David Burgess [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 2:56 PM > To: support > Subject: [pfSense Support] networked file systems > > After some contemplation I think I would like to run squid on my pfsense > box, but mount the squid cache directory (/var/squid) on an external host. > After some research, I believe the following options would provide the best > performance with the least overhead, in descending order: > > 1. AoE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet > 2. iSCSI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI > 3. nfs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_(protocol) > > I believe pfsense has nfs client ability natively, so no problem there. > According to wikipedia, FreeBSD can be an iSCSI initiator, while AoE support > on FreeBSD is 3rd party and out of date. pfsense and the FS host will be on > the same ethernet, so connectivity is not an issue here. > > Any thoughts from the list? > > db > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > >
