From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Sep 23 21:49:10 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21201A07A52 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:49:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slw@zxy.spb.ru) Received: from zxy.spb.ru (zxy.spb.ru [195.70.199.98]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D521113B5 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:49:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slw@zxy.spb.ru) Received: from slw by zxy.spb.ru with local (Exim 4.84 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1ZeruR-0005CY-Ab; Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:49:03 +0300 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:49:03 +0300 From: Slawa Olhovchenkov To: John Nielsen , freebsd-current Current , aoyama@peach.ne.jp, Yonas Yanfa Subject: Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20150923214903.GY3158@zxy.spb.ru> References: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net> <5B296016-F14D-48A9-8DC6-0D8EA28AE891@jnielsen.net> <20150923212520.GA7390@brick> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150923212520.GA7390@brick> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: slw@zxy.spb.ru X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on zxy.spb.ru); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 21:49:10 -0000 On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote: > On 0923T0916, John Nielsen wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa 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: > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > 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't aware it had been updated for FreeBSD 10.x so recently. I've 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? > > The basic problem with isboot is that it only works with the old iSCSI > initiator, which is now marked obsolete. AFAIK there is no ready solution We have more then one iSCSI initiator? Other then iscsi_initiator(4)?