[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#687925: diff for NMU version 1.4.20.2-10.1

[Arne Redlich]

2012/9/17 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at debian.org>:
> Hello Arne / Ross,
>
> This debian bug, 687925, is release critical for the OpenStack suite.
> OpenStack uses iscsitarget as its storage sub-module.
>
> As is explained in this bug report, the ietd daemon does not seem to be
> releasing the sparse files that it exposes to the initiator, even after
> the initiator has logged out the sessions.
>
> This fix, in revision 478, is not part of the stable 1.4.20 branch.
>
> Debian is in freeze now, and the iscsitarget version that will ship with
> Wheezy is the 1.4.20.2 stable branch.
>
> Is it safe to pick this one fix against the stable branch?

Ritesh,

It should be safe.

ISTR that I didn't put it into the 1.4.20 stable branch immediately as
I didn't get around to testing it against older kernels (< 2.6.35)
back then. Exercising the steps outlined in [1] in a ubuntu 10.04.4 vm
with 2.6.32-42-server with this patch in place didn't show any
regressions, so I just cherry-picked and pushed it to our 1.4.20
branch as well.

HTH,
Arne

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/iscsitarget/+bug/967984