From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 9 15:07:58 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 CC8CD10656D5; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A425C8FC23; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 15:07:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from [192.168.213.128] (jn@stealth.jnielsen.net [74.218.226.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id n39EhRD1087824; Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:43:28 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:43:24 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904091043.25425.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88.4, clamav-milter version 0.88.4 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Ivan Voras 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 15:07:59 -0000 On Thursday 09 April 2009 10:32:05 am Danny Braniss wrote: > > Danny Braniss wrote: > > >> This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > > >> --------------enig90DADA8437A99D893FB775F8 > > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3D3DUTF-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=3D > > > > a=3D3D > > > > >>>>> lot of disk space available via iSCSI (in addition to firewire > > >>>>> 800)=3D > > > > , > > > > >>>>> and they were wondering how well iSCSI works with FreeBSD. I > > >>>>> haven=3D > > > > 't=3D3D > > > > >>>>> 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=3D > > > > SI=3D3D > > > > >>>> 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/00383 > > >>>>4.ht=3D > > > > ml=3D3D > > > > >>>> 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. > > >=3D20 > > > 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 =3D > > > > 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=3D 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 =3D3D 161.53.72.65 > > targetname =3D3D iqn.2007-09.jp.ne.peach:disk1 > > tags =3D3D 16 > > } > > Q: what kernel? =46rom his previous message it looks like 7-STABLE amd64 > Q: what target? =46rom the targetname it looks like the recently committed net/istgt runnin= g=20 on another FreeBSD machine. > btw, without the camcontrol tags, is it working? That one I can't infer. :) JN