At 9:15 Uhr -0700 13.07.2022, Brian Buhrow wrote: > [...] you'll get much better read-write performance if you create a standard >zfs filesystem for your time machine backup, then create a regular file in >it which you export via iscsi.
To wrap up the issue, I don't even care much about which side is at fault, initiator or target. It's just the experience was nothing I would like to deal with daily. For this home setup, while it would have been nice to use thge server's raid1, I found 2 TB of spinning rust for 50 EUR which does the job nicely. In a similar setting at work, three latest-model iMacs are happily running their Time Machine against Samba shares on a FreeBSD server. Since NetBSD's zfs does not support extended attributes, that wasn't an option here. Cheerio, Hauke -- "It's never straight up and down" (DEVO)
