[CentOS] Vsftpd & Iscsi - fast enough

Tue May 22 18:45:50 UTC 2007
Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On 5/22/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
>
> The ability of iSCSI to support high throughput depends on:
>
> 1) How the back-end storage being served up by iSCSI is configured
> 2) How the network interconnects between the iSCSI targets and
> initiators are configured
> 3) How well the FTP software does at reading the data from disk and
> pumping it out the network
>
> 1Gbps ethernet can handle up to 115MB/s per interface. Using MPIO
> round-robin over several interfaces you can continue to add throughput
> if the application can scale well across these multiple paths.
>

I'm a little fuzzy on this Mb vs MB issue - which one is megaBITS  and
which is megaBYTES, and is this a standard convention or ???

Thanks.

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