On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:02 -0600, Mike Christie wrote: > Jeremy Katz wrote: > > Mike -- any chance of getting this included so that shutdown of iscsid> can be much nicer? > > It is on the TODO. > > It would be good for using in the initscript as > > well. Just killing processes like this is really bad for cases where > > people are using chroots and, potentially in the future, other types of > > containers like the openvz patches that were sent to lkml recently. > I don't think the "iscsid -k" patch is what we want. The -k argument > meant that iscsid will run and cleanup running iscsi sessions in the > kernel before stating normal operations. Indeed, that doesn't sound quite like what's needed here. > Are we just looking for a way to shutdown the daemon or both daemon and > running kernel sessions. Either way, I think it would be best to add a > iscsiadm command. iscaidm would then tell the daemon to either remove > all the running sessions in the kernel then stop or to just kill the > daemon in such a way that we can restart it later and it can rebuild its > state. Yeah, that sounds like exactly what we need Jeremy
