From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 14:32:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F19106566C; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734A38FC16; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1LrvIT-000DAG-JT; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:05 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Ivan Voras In-reply-to: References: Comments: In-reply-to Ivan Voras message dated "Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:44:39 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:32:05 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and iSCSI for disks. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:32:09 -0000 > Danny Braniss wrote: > >> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > >> --------------enig90DADA8437A99D893FB775F8 > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3DUTF-8 > >> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >> > >> Danny Braniss wrote: > >>>> Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >>>>> Some friends of mine are looking at the new "DroboPro", which makes= > a=3D > >>>>> lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire 800)= > , > >>>>> and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I haven= > 't=3D > >>>>> paid attention to iSCSI support. Is there anyone using it heavily > >>>>> for disk-storage under FreeBSD? Has there been much changed for > >>>>> iSCSI support in the 8.x branch, or is 7.x support working fine? > >>>> I suppose you are interested in the "client" (initiator) side of iSC= > SI=3D > >>>> support. It hasn't changed much between 7.x and 8.x but there are > >>>> apparently some announcements of a newer version: > >>>> > >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2009-March/003834.ht= > ml=3D > >>>> I can't find any more information on it. > >>> the latest is in: > >>> http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~danny/ftp/freebsd/iscsi-2.1.1.tar.gz > >> Thanks! > >> > >> Is there anything in particular you'd like to get tested in the new > >> version, any significant changes or improvements? > > mainly fixed some bugs, and some code cleanup. > >=20 > > give it a spin, and let me know what target you are testing. > > btw, the default tag opening is a bit concervative (1), you might want = > to > > change it to somewhat larger, say 64 or 128. > > Hi, > > "camcontrol tags" hangs: > > Apr 9 15:36:36 terminator kernel: da3 at iscsi0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > Apr 9 15:36:36 terminator kernel: da3: Fixed > Direct Access SCSI-5 device > Apr 9 15:36:38 terminator kernel: (da2:iscsi0:0:0:0): lost device > Apr 9 15:36:38 terminator kernel: (da2:iscsi0:0:0:0): removing device en= > try > terminator:~ivoras/temp/sbin/iscontrol# ls /dev/da* > /dev/da0 /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1a /dev/da0s1b /dev/da0s1c > /dev/da1 /dev/da3 > terminator:~ivoras/temp/sbin/iscontrol# camcontrol tags da3 > > > The configuration is: > > target0 { > targetaddress =3D 161.53.72.65 > targetname =3D iqn.2007-09.jp.ne.peach:disk1 > tags =3D 16 > } > Q: what kernel? Q: what target? btw, without the camcontrol tags, is it working? danny