You cannot do this with only target and initiator. Period. There's
nobody either at the target or
at the other initiator side who'd tell Windows (or other OS) it has to
purge and invalidate caches
and re-read MFT as volume content was changed by network writer. You
either need to use
Sanbolic MelioFS or DataPlow SAN FS or use NTFS with the third-party
distributed lock manager
like MetaSAN from Tiger Technologies. I don't know much about Melio
cross-tests but from what
I know StarWind and DataPlow and Tiger Technology have their products
cross-certified and
Rocket Division Software guys even have SFS and MetaSAN integration
manuals available to
the public download. I think this one:

http://www.rocketdivision.com/info/StarWind_SFS.pdf

and also this one:

http://www.rocketdivision.com/info/StarWind_MetaSAN.pdf

Good luck and happy SAN-ing

Arigato!

-ichiro

On Mar 13, 8:26*am, srinivas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have couple of queries regardingiscsiinitiator behaviour. I shall
> describe the setup that I have.
>
> Initiator PC:iSCSIinitiator (installed using Initiator-2.06-
> build3497-x86fre) running on a pc with XP.TargetPC: Third partytargetsoftware on a XP pc installed using Star
> Wind Software 3.5.1 Build 20071204.
>
> I made a USB Pen drive as atargetusing the Start Wind software and
> set it up for shared read write access.
> On the initiator side I made an "addtarget" and a "logintarget" from
> the command prompt to form a session to the Pen drive.
>
> Now there are two observations I made which I would like to confirm if
> they are correct.
>
> a) I copy a file to the pendrive at the initiator end. I check the Pen
> drive at thetargetend to see if the newly added file is seen, but it
> is not.
>
> * * I would have to logoff from the session at the initiator end,
> safely unplug the Pen drive from thetargetmachine and then plug it
> back. Only then will I be able to see the file that got copied.
>
> * * Does this mean that thetargethas to be unplugged and plugged
> again to see the changes on thetargetmachine?
>
> b) Now in this scenario, I copy a file in thetargeton thetarget
> machine. I dont see the change at the initiator side.
>
> * * I would have to logoff from the session and login again to see the
> updations.
>
> * *So, when something is added in thetarget, does it not reflect
> straight away at the initiators.
>
> Is using a third partyTargetsoftware the cause for the above
> problems OR what I see is what everyone else gets?
>
> Looking forward to comments on these.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> Srinivas