[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#804162: open-iscsi: support iscsi root by format in RFC 4173 (root=iscsi:server:prot:...)

[Scott Moser]

Package: open-iscsi
Version: 2.0.873-3ubuntu13
Severity: normal

Hi,

RFC 4173 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4173) documents a fairly compact
mechanism for an iscsi target definition.  Copied from
http://ipxe.org/sanuri:
 | fmt of an iSCSI SAN URI is defined by RFC 4173. The general syntax is:
 |    iscsi:<servername>:<protocol>:<port>:<LUN>:<targetname>

Examples:
  iscsi:10.0.4.1:::1:iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.dolphin:storage
  iscsi:boot.ipxe.org::::iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.boot:public
  iscsi:192.168.0.1::::iqn.1991-05.com.microsoft:msdos622-target
  iscsi:opensolaris.home::::iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:e9abf4cd-714b-c6ec-d017-eea5a56252ed

For the first example there, the way that would be done in current
parameters would be:
  iscsi_target_name=iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.dolphin:storage
  iscsi_target_ip=10.0.4.1 iscsi_target_group=1

It'd be nice if we could just:
  root=iscsi:10.0.4.1:::1:iqn.2010-04.org.ipxe.dolphin:storage

Note that RFC does not cover username and password, so that would have to
be done outside the spec if needed.


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