[clue-tech] MAC NFS?

[David L. Willson]

How about another alternative?  iSCSI is either complex or expensive or
slow or all of the above...

ATA over Ethernet:  Can I do this w/o buying anything?  Can I carve off
a target from internal storage?

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 10:41 -0700, Mark G. Harvey wrote:
> Since NFS runs at the Application Layer & TCP is at the Transport Layer, how can TCP/IP be
> skipped at all?  
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_File_System_%28protocol%29
> 
> You also might consider an iSCSI target host to store the vmware files.  Then use an iSCSI
> initiator on the machine running VMware Server & point to the target storage where the .vmdk
> files are stored.
> 
> HTH  
> 
> --- "David L. Willson" <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone aware of a way to skip the TCP/IP layer when NFS mounting?  Both
> > boxes are on the same segment, and I want maximum throughput, lowest
> > latency, lowest CPU demand, for free, with a shared network filesystem
> > (hence NFS).  This storage will be used to host vmware files for 2-4
> > Linux VMware Servers.
> > 
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