Re: Use iSCSI for remote /home?
On 25Dec2020 13:53, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Based on the feedback, I settled on NFS for /home sharing because I
really just want to share files, [...]
I just want to reiterate what Jorge Fábregas said: DO NOT use iscsi to
_share_ a filesystem. I know you're not, but it isn't clear to me that
you realise that this is a direct recipe for corruption and disaster.
A filesystem expects sole access to whatever block device it stores its
data on. Two systems with the same block device mounted (i.e. via iscsi)
_will_ walk all over its data structures without coordination, and
_will_ mangle your data.
NFS or equivalent is definitely the go: you want _file_ level sharing,
not _block_ level sharing, because that way the system managing "files"
out of a block device is just one system (the remote system holding the
device).
An NFS (or equivalent - cifs, sshfs etc) mount is essentially a file
based proxy to a remote mounted tree.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)cskk.id.au>