#block-storage
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iSCSI vs NFS vs SMB: Choosing a Storage Protocol
This comparison explains how iSCSI, NFS and SMB differ in filesystem ownership, locking, path redundancy, security and failure behavior.
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iSCSI Troubleshooting: Login, Timeout and Path Errors
A layered method for iSCSI faults: portal reachability, discovery, login, ACL and CHAP mismatches, MTU stalls, and the timers that decide when I/O fails.
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Unraid iSCSI Target Setup: Plugins, LUNs and CHAP
Unraid ships no iSCSI target in its stock web interface. How the community plugins, the targetcli backend, LUN placement and CHAP actually fit together.
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iSCSI Fundamentals: Targets, LUNs and Multipathing
How iSCSI maps SCSI block storage onto TCP/IP, what IQNs and LUNs actually represent, and why MPIO is not the same thing as link aggregation.