Anyone used Kernsafe iSCSI initiator?

[Ian McCall]

Have come across this:
<http://www.kernsafe.com/press-releases/kernsafe-releases-free-iscsi-target-initiator-for-macos.aspx>

Now,

previously I could sorta-kinda have had a free initiator by downloading
the Drobo and thee editing some config files, but that always seemed
hacky to me and unlikely to survive updates etc.. This on the other
hand looks way better. I'm keen to do iSCSI on the Synology for my iMac
- get a few drives auto mounted, plus block access not file access so a
bit faster.

Any experiences?


Cheers,
Ian
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[David Sankey]

On 10/02/2016 09:48, Ian McCall wrote:
> Have come across this:
> <http://www.kernsafe.com/press-releases/kernsafe-releases-free-iscsi-target-initiator-for-macos.aspx>
>
>
> Now,
> previously I could sorta-kinda have had a free initiator by downloading
> the Drobo and thee editing some config files, but that always seemed
> hacky to me and unlikely to survive updates etc.. This on the other hand
> looks way better. I'm keen to do iSCSI on the Synology for my iMac - get
> a few drives auto mounted, plus block access not file access so a bit
> faster.
>
> Any experiences?

No, but I've been happy with the GlobalSAN iSCSI initiator since 2012,
initially on 10.7 (might have been 10.8), now 10.11.

Not free but has continued to be updated as necessary.

Dave

[Paul Womar]

Ian McCall <i...@eruvia.org> wrote:

> Have come across this:
>
<http://www.kernsafe.com/press-releases/kernsafe-releases-free-iscsi-tar
get-initiator-for-macos.aspx>
>
> Now,
>
> previously I could sorta-kinda have had a free initiator by downloading
> the Drobo and thee editing some config files, but that always seemed
> hacky to me and unlikely to survive updates etc.. This on the other
> hand looks way better. I'm keen to do iSCSI on the Synology for my iMac
> - get a few drives auto mounted, plus block access not file access so a
> bit faster.
>
> Any experiences?

The text is pretty shonky, support seems terrible but as far as I can
tell based on a very brief response in their forums this only actually
works with their own kit at the other end. Forum posts from last year
suggested they weren't able to get it signed either so won't work with
modern Mac OS X version until they sort it.

Would be happy to be proven wrong though, I keep being tempted to use
iSCSI, the Time Machine sparsebundle stuff seems like a bodge. Although
it seems a lot better than it was, I just had TM say the backups on
FreeNAS box needed to be recreated. Thankfully on there I can just roll
back to a snapshot a little while ago, verify them and carry on without
losing too much history.
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