Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 13:58:55 -0700 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD Message-ID: <CAOgwaMtYw7ek%2BdvwC76NRgL5wQB5Y-n1i4XVVNBF8tO11qQiQw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5603071A.4090809@freebsd.org> References: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net> <5B296016-F14D-48A9-8DC6-0D8EA28AE891@jnielsen.net> <5603071A.4090809@freebsd.org>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 2015-09-23 11:16, John Nielsen wrote: > > 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 yo= u > to boot your root partition using iSCSI. > > [,,,] > >> This was first announced way back in June, 2010: > >> > >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html > >> > >> I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD > 10.2 booting a ZFS on root installation: > >> > >> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz > >> > Yes , each file in the tar ball has BSD license at their beginning one by one . > >> 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-i= n. > > > > +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 Fr= eeBSD 10.x > so recently. I=E2=80=99ve also wondered why this is not part of FreeBSD b= y 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! > > > > It appears to already have a standard BSD2 license on it. > > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > -- > Allan Jude > > Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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