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Oct 29, 2014 6:14 AM in response to Gofannonby Terence Devlin,It is a network share.
In computing, iSCSI (
i/aɪˈskʌzi/ eye-skuz-ee), is an acronym for Internet Small Computer System Interface, an Internet Protocol (IP)-based storage networking standard for linking data storage facilities.If it's over IP it's network
In computer storage, a logical unit number, or LUN, is a number used to identify a logical unit, which is a device addressed by the SCSI protocol or Storage Area Network protocols which encapsulate SCSI, such as Fibre Channel or iSCSI.
There's that word Network in there again...
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Oct 29, 2014 7:14 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Gofannon,Sorry it's NOT a network share like those using SMB, AFP or NFS...
It's a real block device directly handled by the client OS (not the server) that can't be shared with anyone.
The IP part is only the transport layer as would be USB, SATA, Firewire, Thunderbolt, ...
Feel free to counter check if you want.
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Oct 29, 2014 7:28 AM in response to Gofannonby Terence Devlin,You know, whatever. It's on an unsupported drive. You've been warned.
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Oct 29, 2014 7:50 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Gofannon,I only want to share my knowledge with those searching for a solution to store their huge iPhoto Library.
The only real limitation is that the library MUST be on a HFS+ formatted drive directly managed by OSX. Nothing else.
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Oct 29, 2014 8:05 AM in response to Gofannonby Terence Devlin,Well Apple put it differently.
iPhoto needs to have the Library sitting on disk formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Users with the Library sitting on disks otherwise formatted regularly report issues including, but not limited to, importing, exporting, saving edits and sharing the photos.
See this article
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5168
for more. Note also the comment:
“Additionally, storing the iPhoto library on a network rather than locally on your computer can also lead to poor performance or data loss.”
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Oct 29, 2014 8:15 AM in response to Terence Devlinby Gofannon,Yes, that's what i said
By the way : on network means on network shares
(This is only because iPhoto relies on the hidden filesystem metadatas that are never transferred with protocols like SMB, AFP, NFS, … even if the server that shares the share is formatted in HFS+)
Edit : iSCSI is always to be considered as a locally attached device.
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Apr 9, 2015 11:43 AM in response to Gofannonby djgert,Dear
I am using a NAS Synology 412+ and a iPhoto library with 15k photo's. It's so slow I want to change the method.
How did you do the fast NAS setup? How can I see the NAS is formatted the right way?
If no change, I'll by a USB3 external hard disk....
Thanks for your help!
Gert
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Apr 9, 2015 1:00 PM in response to djgertby Terence Devlin,Buy the USB 3 disk, and format it Mac OS Extended (Journaled). That's what Apple supports.
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Jun 16, 2015 6:27 AM in response to Terence Devlinby DiegoVieira,An be prepared to lose all your files when the drive fails.
Thanks anyway.
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Jun 16, 2015 7:35 AM in response to DiegoVieiraby LarryHN,DiegoVieira wrote:
An be prepared to lose all your files when the drive fails.
Thanks anyway.
Not at all - like any computer disk you will not lose anything when it fails because you know to always have a good up to date backup - not backing up is stupid
LN
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Jun 17, 2015 4:45 AM in response to DiegoVieiraby Terence Devlin,An be prepared to lose all your files when the drive fails.
Thanks anyway.
Huh? Isn't that why you have a back up - or 3... Or do you think NAS don't fail too?