[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#635161: open-iscsi: add a udeb

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Colin and Floris,


On 07/23/2011 07:07 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 01:20:33PM +0200, Floris Bos wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 23, 2011 12:37:29 PM Colin Watson wrote:
>>> I'd like to merge Ubuntu's support for iSCSI during d-i back into
>>> Debian.  Here's a patch for open-iscsi to add a udeb, which is the first
>>> step in making this work.
>>>
>>> Once this has landed, I'll merge the partman-iscsi work I've done into
>>> the d-i repository.
>> I was wondering why the upstream iscsistart is not included in the udeb.
> I didn't use it in the d-i integration code I wrote because at the level
> I was working at it was easier to just use iscsiadm directly, but I
> don't object to it being added.  I assume this is trivial enough that
> there's no need for me to update my patch.
>

I have included the iscsistart binary too. We can collectively decide
later if we want the iscsid daemon start right in initrd or later.
With iscsistart, we get a single path login in initrd which is good
enough till we reach init and start the daemon, which then logs in for
the remaining parts if any.

iscsid running right from start also is not that bad. Just that, we will
still need to do a verify/login in real init.

>> That way it would be possible to simply call "iscsistart -b" if an iBFT table 
>> is present to auto-configure the iSCSI settings, without having to prompt the 
>> user.
> Sure - the code I wrote for Ubuntu doesn't support using an iBFT table,
> so it makes sense to add that support.
>

Please CC us on the partman bug report for iscsi. We should get this
ready for Wheezy.


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Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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