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Comment by burner420042

5 hours ago

The 'target' moves slow so once you learn it, it all stays relevant forever.

... And it's very, very fun.

Does it offer performance advantages over NFS root?

  • Dunno about performance vs NFS, but I've stuffed an unaware OS onto ZVOL-over-iSCSI using a NIC with option ROM.

  • I kind of expect the performance is worse, but one neat thing is that iscsi is a block device, so you could run e.g. disk crypto, volume management or whatever on it. Not to mention any FS. And you don't need to deal with NFS or RPC.