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digitaljunkie1
Oct 10, 2011Aspirant
Single iSCSI taret & 2 initiators...
I have a ReadyNAS 2100 in operation that has the following configuration... 1 x SMB share mounted on a SBS2K8 box 1 x iSCSI Target with a single 2TB LUN which has Access Control Enabled The i...
sphardy1
Oct 10, 2011Apprentice
"iSCSI imposes no rules or restrictions on multiple computers sharing individual LUNs; it leaves shared access to a single underlying filesystem as a task for the operating system."
That is precisely your problem - OS X provides no control of how the 2 initiators write to the LUN and so data corruption is highly possibly - probable even.
Consider an external HDD with firewire interface which often come with 2 ports to enable daisy-chaining. You could simultaneously connect the drive to 2 separate macs such that both use the disk and there would be no protection from both macs writing to the same location. That's what you have with one LUN and 2 initiators
Applications such as VMWare have controls built-in to deal with this scenario. There are also specialised File Systems designed to support this, but not easily supported on Mac
Networking protocols such as CIFS and AFP are specifically designed to enable simultaneous access to shared storage - iSCSI is not
Note: The developers of the initiator you are using also provide software that supports what you are trying to do - but it is substantially more expensive
http://www.studionetworksolutions.com/p ... l.php?pi=8
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