[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#533627: allow iscsitarget refresh without restart

Wed Apr 27 21:42:16 UTC 2011

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 02:18:49PM +0200, Joerg Delker wrote:
> Currently, a full restart of iscsitargeti(ietd) is necessary when changes to ietd.conf have been applied.
> As a consequence the iscsi target services are shutdown for some seconds (or even more if you screwed the config), which may be quite nasty to your currently connected iscsi-initiators.
> 
> It would be tremendously helpfull to have a "config reload" capability on ietd. Maybe on a HUP or other SIGUSR* signal, which rereads ietd.conf and applies the changes without interruption of service.
> 

Seconded.