Re: iscsi?

[Alistair Crooks <agc%pkgsrc.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 01:27:57AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> >> [iSCSI initiator support?]
> 
> > I'm pretty sure iscsi-initiator support is only provided for NetBSD
> > through the netbsd-iscsi-initiator package in the net category of the
> > pkgsrc tree.  Because it relies on the fuse interface to get its work
> > done, I am also pretty sure the earliest version of NetBSD on which
> > it will work is NetBSD-5.
> 
> Hm, fuse...does this mean iSCSI disk can be used only for a filesystem,
> rather than just appearing as another disk drive?  That's what the fuse
> documentation makes it look like; it looks as though it operates at the
> filesystem layer, not the disk-device layer.  Am I missing something?

No, it presents as a block device; it just uses fuse as "transport".

There's more information on running the iscsi initiator using a cgd on
top:

        http://www.netbsd.org/docs/encrypted-iscsi.html

If you want the in-kernel iscsi initiator, it arrived in NetBSD 6.0.

Regards,
Alistair