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diff --git a/devel/netbsd-iscsi/DESCR b/devel/netbsd-iscsi/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..0cfbbe49ccb --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/netbsd-iscsi/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +iSCSI is an IETF standard (RFC 3720) for remote access to block-level +storage. It can be thought of as similar to NFS, except that an NFS +server exports files; the iSCSI target exports blocks to the iSCSI +initiators, which are the clients. + +To set up the target, you need to edit the /etc/iscsi/targets file. +It has a certain layout, to provide a means of (a) mirroring and (b) +combining multiple areas to present one large contiguous area of +storage. This can be multiply-layered. |