Re: [Iscsitarget-devel] newbie question about the nature of iscsitarget

[Luca B. <bl...@co...>]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
>Le Mon, 24 May 2010 17:52:51 +0200 vous écriviez:
>
>> Would it be correct to state that you could stop the LUN, mount the
>> partition locally and see all the files? In other words does
>> iscsitarget just add a layer for iSCSI transport and does it leave
>> the lower storage  untouched?
>> 
>
>Absolutely correct. If you repartition the LV from the initiator side
>however, you'll probably have trouble accessing those subdevices.
>
you can use kpartx on the host to create device-mapper maps for
partitions on the lv, tough.

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