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Date:      Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:16:57 -0600
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Cc:        aoyama@peach.ne.jp, =?utf-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>, Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net>
Subject:   Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <5B296016-F14D-48A9-8DC6-0D8EA28AE891@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net>
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On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net> wrote:

> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows =
you to boot your root partition using iSCSI.
[,,,]
> This was first announced way back in June, 2010:
>=20
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html
>=20
> I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD =
10.2 booting a ZFS on root installation:
>=20
> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz
>=20
> I've used iSCSI boot with Ubuntu Server for a while and it's been very =
useful. I'm looking forward to FreeBSD having the same capability =
built-in.

+1. I have used this module in the past and it is extremely useful. =
Thanks for the pointer, I wasn=E2=80=99t aware it had been updated for =
FreeBSD 10.x so recently. I=E2=80=99ve also wondered why this is not =
part of FreeBSD by default.

Aoyama-san, do you have any objection to this code being included in =
FreeBSD? If not, can you formally assign it a BSD or other friendly =
license? Thank you again for the work!

Trasz (or anyone), is there other work to support iSCSI booting and/or =
IBFT on FreeBSD? Anything else isboot might conflict with? Any problems =
with integrating the code or with the code itself?

In the mean time, I=E2=80=99m going to work on adding an isboot port to =
the tree to further ease installation and increase exposure.

JN




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