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Tepixtoday at 7:10 AM2 repliesview on HN

This could be an interesting setup for booting off a NAS like Synology or QNAP. I haven't really used iSCSI, it's intimidating how much prep this takes...


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rwmjtoday at 7:26 AM

iSCSI seems intentionally obscure. One of the improvements I made to NBD was invent a simple, standardized URI format so that you can specify servers easily, eg:

  nbdinfo nbd://server
  nbdcopy nbd://server:2001/ nbd+unix:///?socket=/tmp/localsock
https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/blob/master/doc/ur...
burner420042today at 7:15 AM

The 'target' moves slow so once you learn it, it all stays relevant forever.

... And it's very, very fun.

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