zfs discuss - Aug 2008 - Can a iSCS-targetI and CIFIS-share co-exist?

On openSolaris I have a ZFS zpool vol that is a CIFS share on my network. Can I
make this same shared-data an iSCSI target also?

The reason I want to do this is that my VirtualBox VM''s are about 10x
slower in accessing the network-share than any other machine on the network.
This prevents me from say using Visual Studio under VBox to compile a project on
the share.

I heard VBox''s iSCSI would be faster than it''s networking. But
other computers still need to access that data via CIFS. Any ideas?

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Windows Laptop compiles project locally: 8 min.
Windows Laptop compiles project on share via network: 9min.

WinXP VM on Solaris host compiles same project (local to the VM): 3min.
WinXP VM on Solaris host compiles same project on share via network: 1hour+
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Thanks in advance
Envision
 
 
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Steven <accounts at
stevengpeterson.net>wrote:
> On openSolaris I have a ZFS zpool vol that is a CIFS share on my network.
> Can I make this same shared-data an iSCSI target also?
>
> The reason I want to do this is that my VirtualBox VM''s are about
10x
> slower in accessing the network-share than any other machine on the
network.
> This prevents me from say using Visual Studio under VBox to compile a
> project on the share.
>
> I heard VBox''s iSCSI would be faster than it''s
networking. But other
> computers still need to access that data via CIFS. Any ideas?
>
>
You''d have to share out an iSCSI LUN to *insert destination*.  Then
share
out the LUN from the host it''s presented to via cifs/nfs/whatever.  You
can''t magically make an iSCSI LUN out of the cifs data currently
sitting on
the share on the Solaris host.  Doesn''t work that way.

--Tim
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