Hello, We just tested the performances of a USB3 device imported using a iSCSI link (tgtd + iscsiadm between 2 rhel 6 boxes). The disk is mounted with the "sync" (server side) and written to using the "O_DIRECT" option (client side). We write to the disk using the following command: dd if=src_from_fast_device of=dest_on_test_device bs=128k oflag=direct When we test the disk locally, we reach about 50MB/s which is nice. However, when we use a iSCSI link, we cannot reach more than 6MB/s on a Gigabyte network. We tried a disk emulation and a passthrough iSCSI exports without much performance gain. Is there some parameters we could ajust on the server or client side to gain back our writing performance in such a case ? Is there a way to workaround this situation, while still keeping the "sync" mount and "O_DIRECT" write so we avoid dirty pages bloating problems on the client side ? Thanks for your help, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stgt" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html