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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 2013 14:02:01 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?Q?Edward_Tomasz_Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New iSCSI stack.
Message-ID:  <CAF-QHFWyT43%2B=46gFm3HAGc1r=eD8E4Kc2OKXG-z1=-q2466tg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <34CEBF66-08BF-4265-8558-4A4A62109C77@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5 September 2013 14:00, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a <trasz@freebsd.org>=
 wrote:
> Wiadomo=C5=9B=C4=87 napisana przez Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> w dniu=
 5 wrz 2013, o godz. 13:18:
>> On 05/09/2013 12:27, Edward Tomasz Napiera=C5=82a wrote:
>>> Hello.  At http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/cfiscsi-20130904.diff you'l=
l find
>>> a patch which adds the new iSCSI initiator and target, against 10-CURRE=
NT.
>>> To use the new initiator, start with "man iscsictl".  For the target - =
"man
>>> ctld".
>>
>> Just a naming question: "ctld" could mean anything, I'd parse it as a
>> "control deamon" or something like that. Could you name it something
>> which reminds the user of iscsi? Like iscsictld?
>
> As the man page says, ctld is "CAM Target Layer / iSCSI target daemon".
> Sure, right now it's pretty iSCSI-specific, but it doesn't need to be - i=
t can
> be extended to just manage CTL configuration (e.g. for Fibre Channel),
> or to support other CTL-backed storage protocols, such as FCoE.
>
> It's just a helper daemon for ctl(4) - thus, ctld(8).  And in case someon=
e
> does "man -k iscsi", there is the "iSCSI target" in the manual page title=
.

Thanks, you're right!



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