[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#810702: Generate initiator name on install, not first boot

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Hello Martin,

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> I'm afraid I really don't know much about open-iscsi and the details
> why this patch was introduced. James, would be great if you can
> provide some background.
> 

One reason to have support in the installer is to have your rootfs on a
SAN device. Anaconda has had it for years. So I'm sure these patches
must have the same intent for Ubuntu Enterprise LTS.

For Debian too, some time ago, I looked at the possibility. IIRC, one
of the components (scsi modules udeb) was unavailable on all
architectures in Debian.


> Ubuntu debian-installer does have some differences, but it's
> generally the same. Does d-i really start services during
> installation? I would have expected it to install a temporary
> policy-rc.d, as presumably many services would fail in
> the d-i environment still. Then calling update-initramfs would put
> the
> dummy initiator config into the generated initrd which would fail to
> boot.
> 
> But supposedly you tried to set up open-iscsi in the Debian
> installer.
> Does that work, or maybe Debian's d-i does not even offer to set up
> open-iscsi? Ubuntu's does, that might be the important difference
> here.

I think D-I currently does not have the support. There was a patch from
Ubuntu, some years ago, for an open-iscsi udeb, which is already part
of the packaging. But I never did see the relevant D-I part for the
installer.

So just thought of asking.


-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf
RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
"Necessity is the mother of invention."

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