[burner420042]

The 'target' moves slow so once you learn it, it all stays relevant forever.

... And it's very, very fun.

[Tepix]

Does it offer performance advantages over NFS root?

[a96]

I kind of expect the performance is worse, but one neat thing is that iscsi is a block device, so you could run e.g. disk crypto, volume management or whatever on it. Not to mention any FS. And you don't need to deal with NFS or RPC.

[burner420042]

They operate at different layers.

iscsi is a block device: you gain a 'disk drive' sitting on your network. A dedicated network for disk traffic and use it to host on-prem virtualization. It's called a SAN array.

[Tepix]

Sure, but eventually you will reach a layer with files, usually. Then you can run benchmarks and compare numbers.

[bobmcnamara]

Dunno about performance vs NFS, but I've stuffed an unaware OS onto ZVOL-over-iSCSI using a NIC with option ROM.