On Mon, 19.07.10 11:15, Mike Christie (mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > On 07/14/2010 10:43 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > 3) You check mtab to figure out whether the rootdir is on iscsi. That > > cannot work, as mtab is not really updated anyway, and if at all you > > should look in /proc/mounts, but this won't really give your the > > information either. The proper way to handle this in systemd is to start > > iscsid if an iscsi block device appears. > > We cannot do this, because iscsid is needed to find the iscsi device. > The iscsid daemon and the kernel modules work together to implement the > iscsi protocol. Basically, to do discovery and log into disks, iscsid > will send/recv iscsi packets through the iscsi kernel modules. iscsid > then parses the packets and does things like CHAP and the iscsi > parameter negotiation. But if that's the case, why do you believe you gain anything by checking whether the root directory is on iscsi? Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
