[clue-tech] MAC NFS?

[David L. Anselmi]

David L. Willson wrote:
> 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?  

UDP is what you want for something that runs on IP, like NFS.  SCSI and 
ATA were designed for raw access to a disk and you don't have multiple 
machines accessing the same disk.  So I don't think they help you at all.

SAN may get what you want, though still you can probably only share a 
partition if it's read only.  Or there may be SAN file systems that you 
can't afford. ;-)

But before you freak out about the IP overhead, what throughput does 
1000BT if you compared to ATA, and is it good enough?  And if it isn't 
good enough, is it really IP overhead that's killing you?

Dave