On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 10:11 -0400, Laurence Oberman wrote: > On Wed, 2020-07-15 at 12:18 +0430, Sadegh Ali wrote: > > Dear sir > > > > we are considering to build SCSI Target system with ZFS filesystem > > backend using Linux > > I searched that two modules are available for Linux SCSI target, > > LIO, > > and SCST > > but it seems LIO project that streamed to the kernel is not updated > > for a while (about 7 years) > > Is the LIO module project dead? or suspended? > > Is any person or community available to respond to technical > > problems > > and fix bugs or develop new features or support new hardware? > > > > with best regards > > > > There has definitely been a pause in the LIO target code updates. > In fact we use it a lot here (qla2xxx and SRP) at Red Hat but we have > remained on the 4.5 kernel with my jammer patch in the lab because > later updates have been seeing lots of problems. > I reported this to Marvell and they were looking into it but its been > a > long time. > > The ISCSI module is very stable but my issues had been mostly with > the > qla2xxx target module. > > Many vendors who have this in their products took a snapshot many > kernels back and I am not sure how much has been shared back to > upstream. > > I have not tested recent upstream kernels for ages so I am also > intrested to know who has been using either the qla2xxx modules or > the > SRP module successfully with recent kernels. > > Regards > Laurence I should made it clearer that this comment below meant I had not tested recent upstream kernel LIO modules qla2xxx and SRP. I run the 4.5 kernel with a jammer patch for both qla2xxx and SRPtarget support in my lab. "I have not tested recent upstream kernels for ages so I am also intrested to know who has been using either the qla2xxx modules or the SRP module successfully with recent kernels."
