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Date:      Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:09:32 -0800
From:      "Jeff Mohler" <speedtoys.racing@gmail.com>
To:        "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>,  "Free BSD Questions list" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: iSCSI
Message-ID:  <a969fbd10701091009i2f41789ek9657cedf2eef3df2@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070109163557.GH41724@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <45A2A0E6.7090202@pixelhammer.com> <200701081508.20632.lists@jnielsen.net> <45A399BD.9080707@pixelhammer.com> <20070109163557.GH41724@dan.emsphone.com>

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That only works if the target comes up within the 2min window that
SCSI allows for.  It won't wait forever.

On 1/9/07, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 09), DAve said:
> > The developers response, for those who are interested.
> >
> > hi Dave,
> > 	the initiator for iSCSI will hit stable/current real soon now.
> > that was the good news, now for the down side:
> > what was missing all along was recovery from network disconnects, so
> > while I think I have it almost worked out, I've come across a major
> > flow in the iscsi design:
> > 	when the targets crashes, and comes back, there is no way
> > to tell the client to run an fsck. This is not a problem if the
> > client is mounting the iscsi partition read only.
> >
> > 	danny
>
> Why should the client need to do an fsck?  From its point of view it
> should just look like the target had the iSCSI equivalent of a bus
> reset.  It should resend any queued requests and continue.
>
> --
> 	Dan Nelson
> 	dnelson@allantgroup.com
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