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From: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>
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Subject: Re: New iSCSI stack.
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On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:29:53PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:

> > We would love to quickly backport and ship this with FreeNAS as an option for our users, having the config files be the same OR having a very good converter would really make that much easier for us.
> 
> Porting to 9 should be quite easy - there are Capsicum API differences;
> you might also want to compare CTL between 10 and 9 to see if there are
> any changes which need to be merged.  Taking a look at the code searching
> for possible security issues would be also very welcome :-)
> 
> As for the config files - writing a converter should be quite easy.  Which
> configuration files you need to support, ctl.conf(5) and istgt configuration?

Can you write utility for _generate_ ctl.conf from runtime
configuration? Curenly configuring directly by `ctladm create` is more
predictable from script, but incompatible by syntax and not
persistent.