Persistent iSCSI Device Names on CentOS 4

[Jay Leafey <jay.leafey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found a lot of stuff about this on the web, but never an answer that 
worked.  One of the most promising hints was about udev maintaining 
links in the /dev/disk/by-* directories.  This works just fine in CentOS 
5, but not CentOS 4.  As I was trying to use the iSCSI devices as VMware 
disks this was particularly frustrating.  After banging my head on this 
for a while, I figured out how to make it work.

By default, iSCSI devices don't show up in the /dev/disk/by-* 
directories maintained by udev under CentOS 4.  After looking at the 
scripts used by udev, it appeared that the scsi_id program was not 
returning anything for the iSCSI devices.  Digging in the manpage and 
the /etc/scsi_id.config file led me to believe that the devices in 
question were "blacklisted" and never returned a valid device ID.

The fix was to add a line to scsi_id.config to whitelist the particular 
devices.  In my case, the iSCSI devices are provided by on Openfiler 
box, which shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi like this:

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Openfile Model: Virtual disk     Rev: 0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 04

The fix for me was to add the following line to my iscsi_id.config file:

vendor=Openfile, model="Virtual disk", options=-g

The values for "vendor=" and "model=" will vary with the specific iSCSI 
target used.  After adding this and rebooting, udev now properly 
maintains the links in /dev/disk/by-id/ for each of the iSCSI devices 
offered up to my workstation.

Hope that helps somebody!
--
Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN
jay.leafey@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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