[OpenAFS] Iscsi or san support.

[Dennis O. Aliev]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:12:16 -0700
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:

> Dennis O Aliev <daliev@etecom.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm new to openafs and would like to get a more clear picture after
> > reading documentation.
> 
> > Is it possible to have client hosts access data directly from SAN type
> > device (iSCSI in our case) instead of using openafs server?
> 
> No, not if the data is in AFS.  AFS does not support access to data that
> it manages via mechanisms other than over the AFS protocol, except at a
> very low-level, do-it-yourself, useful-only-for-testing sort of way.  It
> is not like NFS; it does not export an existing traditional file system.
> 
> -- 
> Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
> 

Thank you Russ,

I suppose we could mount a partition from iSCSI storage to AFS file server for futher export to AFS clients.

Is there a way to mount same partition from iSCSI storage across multiple load balanced AFS file servers?

Is there a performance chart for AFS? We are currently able to get ~ 80MB/s transfer rate on a Gbit network if node is directly attached to iSCSI storage.
What kind of data transfer can we expect on an AFS client accessing data via AFS File server using similiar Gbit enviroment?

Thank you.

Dennis O. Aliev.