[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Plans for open-iscsi post Jessie

[Christian Seiler]

Am 2015-04-24 16:12, schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
>>  - systemd (2): create proper open-iscsi.service that just does the
>>    mounting, but doesn't start iscsid (leave that to upstream's 
>> native
>>    service files). The init script still does start iscsid, however.
>>
>
> Before the whole systemd thing, in Red Hat, there used to be 2 
> scripts.
> One for starting the daemon, the other for establishing the sessions
> (login, logout etc).

I don't know about RHEL, but when I looked at Fedora to see how they
did it (for the bugfix for Jessie), they have two services:

iscsid.service (the upstream one) just to start the daemon
iscsi.service for login/logout

I would like to follow a similar logic for Debian, but just call the
login/logout service open-iscsi.service (with proper Alias=iscsi to
make it compatible for anyone who wants to order against it).

The init script I wouldn't change, because on sysvinit I don't see
any benefit to splitting it up (we can't use anything from upstream
anyway, whereas upstream does provide a service file for the daemon).

> And you are right on about the discussion on debian-devel and with 
> other
> concerned parties. init and systemd developers for sure.

Great! After the Jessie release I'll wait a couple of days for the
dust to settle and then ask about this.

In the mean time, as soon as Jessie is out, I'll start pushing
changes for the other things I mentioned to git on alioth.

Regards,
Christian