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Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 16:37:35 -0600
From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
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Subject: Re: Importing iSCSI target from NetBSD
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F. Senault wrote:

> Monday, May 29, 2006, 10:39:40 AM, you wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
> 
> 
>>I wonder if anybody has any objections to importing iSCSI target daemon
>>from NetBSD (Intel) into the base.
> 
> 
> Mh, I'm currently doing that, with the help of the author (Alistair G.
> Crooks), under the form of a port.  Alistair just provided me a new
> version I'm testing, and I was planning to submit the port shortly.
> (It seems to work quite well).
> 
> Now, if it's better to include it into the base, so much the better.
> Alistair was kind enough to take into consideration my suggestions,
> so, now, the daemon compiles and works under FreeBSD 6 (tested lightly
> with and i386 and more intensively witn an amd64).
> 
> The work in progress is here :
> 
> http://www.lacave.net/~fred/iscsi/
> 

If it's not going to be integrated into the existing target 
infrastructure then I'd prefer it to be a port.  Ultimately it
would be nice for it to be part of the base system, though.

Scott