From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Wed Sep 23 22:02:03 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 36069A06133 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:02:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from etnapierala@gmail.com) Received: from mail-la0-x232.google.com (mail-la0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::232]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C74BE1CD2 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:02:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from etnapierala@gmail.com) Received: by lahh2 with SMTP id h2so42981280lah.0 for ; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:02:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Z5rk9pfLYnNs6+AJ8tE/2KuTEHg1eE6uDvz37QiTDTo=; b=DDn+cBwrPm2k3zcOEqqInFA02RbbDxTgdH1eOwSETui8T2ccTPUGR/EMhhuUrEUwEb aNto0JYcHAKgPNYm7JmRpKD8tltd905Te48XWXbkH2GARtzeu9GP147xKMuF1T10I8bB dGQsNjrLS+sD2E18P6wiDrs0cl6KOV6mg3bTK4EmASEx6kXh1GCFj2hZ77ycnk2kB+K7 GZhs4WB0ykPB1gDf0/fBkQZI5IuGmQjgyi/zYsEGMf6bJmmW14+Kd/qNk+KGxj79xZgK gGPFxZ2vCzPPZV26G6IPKZWqcRXIFHDnydS4ku7BhPKim0j5jweAYPWptDZEGXE+brJn fziA== X-Received: by 10.112.129.202 with SMTP id ny10mr12150036lbb.112.1443045720431; Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:02:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brick ([46.229.149.194]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 7sm1010191lai.22.2015.09.23.15.01.59 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 23 Sep 2015 15:01:59 -0700 (PDT) Sender: =?UTF-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:01:58 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= To: Slawa Olhovchenkov Cc: John Nielsen , freebsd-current Current , aoyama@peach.ne.jp, Yonas Yanfa Subject: Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20150923220158.GA7647@brick> Mail-Followup-To: Slawa Olhovchenkov , John Nielsen , freebsd-current Current , aoyama@peach.ne.jp, Yonas Yanfa References: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net> <5B296016-F14D-48A9-8DC6-0D8EA28AE891@jnielsen.net> <20150923212520.GA7390@brick> <20150923214903.GY3158@zxy.spb.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150923214903.GY3158@zxy.spb.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) 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 22:02:03 -0000 On 0924T0049, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > 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)? Sure we do, since 10.0-RELEASE: iscsi(4). "man iscsi_initiator" mentions this.