Moving a catalog to a network drive?

Report · Dec 12, 2011

Hi,

I have my complete catalog of Lightroom 3.5 currently on my harddisc of my PC (windows 7).

I want to move this catalog to a network based RAID disc and work from there. I've exported

my catalog to the networkdisc but how do I tell Lightroom to use that catalog instead of the

one on my local drive?

Thanks

John

Report · Sep 07, 2013

Hi, just FYI, iSCSI does not get involved in file-locking, that is a filesystem attribute.

For those who don't remember, SCSI was a phyical bus standard for connecting block devices to a machine (or even machines), in the same way that (S)ATA is used today. Once the device was presented to a machine, the operating system dealt with creating a filesystem on top of it. The operating system is then responsible for creating locks if the filesystem supports it.

iSCSI, replaces the local physical connection with logical networking but continues to use SCSI commands encapsulated in IP packets. The operating system still treats the device as a block device and is responsible for creating and using the filesystem. It is possible to connect multiple machines to a single iSCSI device but this requires a filesystem that supports sharing, such as GFS. Many machines format the device with a native filesystem, such as NTFS or ext2/3/4.