Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 20:47:02 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=B3a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New iSCSI stack. Message-ID: <5228D1A6.4020405@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <34CEBF66-08BF-4265-8558-4A4A62109C77@FreeBSD.org> References: <A758F12B-2798-4A90-8C67-88F78B82434D@FreeBSD.org> <l09p9d$8k1$1@ger.gmane.org> <34CEBF66-08BF-4265-8558-4A4A62109C77@FreeBSD.org>
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Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: > Wiadomość napisana przez Ivan Voras<ivoras@freebsd.org> w dniu 5 wrz 2013, o godz. 13:18: >> On 05/09/2013 12:27, Edward Tomasz Napierała wrote: >>> Hello. At http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/cfiscsi-20130904.diff you'll find >>> a patch which adds the new iSCSI initiator and target, against 10-CURRENT. >>> To use the new initiator, start with "man iscsictl". For the target - "man >>> ctld". >> >> Just a naming question: "ctld" could mean anything, I'd parse it as a >> "control deamon" or something like that. Could you name it something >> which reminds the user of iscsi? Like iscsictld? > > As the man page says, ctld is "CAM Target Layer / iSCSI target daemon". > Sure, right now it's pretty iSCSI-specific, but it doesn't need to be - it can > be extended to just manage CTL configuration (e.g. for Fibre Channel), > or to support other CTL-backed storage protocols, such as FCoE. > > It's just a helper daemon for ctl(4) - thus, ctld(8). And in case someone > does "man -k iscsi", there is the "iSCSI target" in the manual page title. I understand your explanation, but still thinking rc.conf variables are really confusing and unintuitive: iscsid_enable iscsictl_enable ctld_enable I cannot tell what they control just by their names and the same apply for services names. "If I want to restart iscsi target, should I use 'service iscsid restart' or 'service iscsictl restart'? ... oh wait, it should be 'service ctld restart'" I think it should be more user friendly. Something as Apache 2.2.x has httpd and httpd.conf, but users are using 'service apache22 restart' and 'apache22_enable="YES"', because there can be more "http" daemons. My $0.02 Miroslav Lachman
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