[Gluster-users] GlusterFS and iScsi target export

Atin Mukherjee amukherj at redhat.com
Tue Apr 14 04:20:19 UTC 2015


CCing Dan as he has more insights on this.

~Atin

On 04/14/2015 02:52 AM, Yue, Cong wrote:
> I am using GlusterFS to make my storage between several servers can be replicated with fault tolerance. And I am doing the similar way as
> 
> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_iSCSI
> 
> It works well, but in the process of
> dd if=/dev/zero of=disk3 bs=2G count=25
> 
> it needs long time as for my storage volume is around 1TB. I have one question about whether there is some way to make gluster volume can be exported as an iScsi target without creating disk files?
> For iscsi, it support both disk file and logical unit like /dev/sdb1, but it seems it could not support normal folder like the mount folder from glusterFS.
> 
> Can anybody kindly advise?
> 
> Thanks,
> Cong
> 
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