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Asked: 2013-08-19 23:14:44 +0800 CST

Accessing iSCSI LUN from OS X and Debian simultaneously

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My setup is the following:

Synology Disk Station as iSCSI target
OS X 10.8 as client
Debian as client

I don't like to know that I should use WebDAV or similar file sharing protocols.

I'd like to access the same target from at least the both above named devices. What file system should I use? I guess it should be a cluster file system, but which one should I use for best compatibility?

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1 Answers

  1. If you're going to simultaniously access the LUN from both debian and OS X you'll need a clustered filesystem like GFS.

    This means that you'd have to cluster your OS X with the debian box, and that sounds to me like a really bad idea. I doubt if it's even doable.

    Since your Synology Disk Station is a single point of failure already, clustering the file system will not save you from problems, but is likely to introduce them instead.

    You'll save yourself a lot of headache by accessing the files through something like NFS.

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