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

[James Page]

Hi Folks

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs at researchut.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

That is the case; I used todo most of the install to iSCSI target testing
at the time, and this got picked up during testing one release.


> > 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.


Well I guess that if D-I in Debian does not support installing to iSCSI
targets, then this is not consumable, but I think the patch is still
applicable IMHO (just in case someone does do that enablement work - one
less thing to understand that's broken in test).
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