[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] kfreebsd-9 in experimental?

Arno Töll debian at toell.net
Wed Jun 15 20:42:25 UTC 2011


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Hi,

On 15.06.2011 21:52, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Darko Hojnik wrote:
>> I don't think so. They is more then enough to do with the kfreebsd 8.
>> Arno told me at the last Linuxday, he is working on iSCSI.
> 
> That's no argument against the fact that _others_ work on kfreebsd-9.

It is not influencing my vague plans anyway. Note I was seeking general
consensus (and help) for iSCSI on kfreebsd [1]. Basically I have two
(reasonable) choices, a pure user space driver which would not be
affected by kfreesd-9 at all, or alternatively a port of the Linux
enterprise target [2] kernel driver, which is heavily tied to the
FreeBSD kernel in a huge out-of-tree patch [3].

With all due to respect to FreeBSD porters I wasn't sure we shall adapt
this patch for kfreebsd, since there - in my opinion - some doubts
remain, whether this patch is maintainable for an entire stable release
cycle. Unfortunately I got no response from either the porters or
upstream regarding this. Therefore I am still undecided what approach I
should choose (which is basically the reason why I didn't talk to
pkg-iscsi-maintainers after all, which had to agree on the patch
approach as well). Finally the kfreebsd kernel driver porting is blocked
by several bugs, notably #630509 and #625261 came me in my mind.

As I'm no Debian developer (yet), I'd moreover prefer to maintain the
kfreebsd driver in a team with BSD porters/developers, rather than all
alone. As nobody signaled interest back then in [1] I didn't look any
further by now. If someone with full upload capabilities is interested
to join my approaches, just let me know.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/05/msg00001.html
[2] http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ /
http://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/iscsitarget
[3]
http://download.polytechnic.edu.na/pub3/FreeBSD/ports/local-distfiles/delphij/iet-1.4.20.2.diff.bz2

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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