[ale] linux VM & iscsi array

[John Heim]

Okay. Any recommendations for best fs? I have about 50% linux users mounting 
home directories via nfs and about 50% using Windows and accessing the same 
space via samba.  Plus I have a handful of Mac users as well. Some of those 
people use nfs and some use samba. Actually, most the most important people 
in the department are Mac users. I don't know if that's a coincidence or 
not.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis Ruzeski" <denniruz at gmail.com>
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [ale] linux VM & iscsi array


> Negative-- iSCSI disk presents itself as a block device and needs to be
> partitioned and formatted like a standard hard drive.
>
> --Dennis
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:04 PM, John Heim <john at johnheim.net> wrote:
>
>> My department recently bought an ISCSI array. We have a VMWare esx 
>> cluster
>> and we'd like to set up a virtual file server to talk to the ISCSI array.
>> I'm not in charge of the esx cluster. But I have created a debian squeeze
>> virtual machine and the ISCSI array shows up as three 2Gb partitions.
>>
>> It looks like I have to format these partitions before I can mount them.
>> But
>> its confusing to me because I thought the ISCSI hardware gave you a
>> filesystem and mounting them would be like mounting an nfs partition.
>>
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