FUJITA Tomonori schrieb:
On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:06:55 +0100
juergen.kadidlo@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'm trying to write a driver for a new type of iSCSI target and I'm
using "bs_rdwr.c" as a reference. However, there are some things that
are pretty unclear to me, and one of them is: how are parameters like
sector-size and number of sectors of a device determined? I could not
find code that queries these parameters from the target-device. And
tgtadm doesn't seem to support such params. However, there is not much
documentation, so I'm not sure about that...
To be more precise: assuming that I want to use a file as a target, how
can I specify the sector-size and number of sectors/bytes?
I'm not sure what exactly you want to try. What is 'your anew type of
iSCSI target'?
Probably 'bs_rdwr.c' is a wrong reference for you. It just does I/Os
via system calls. There is not much SCSI stuff there.
That's not easy to explain... you may call it a "Software SAN". It has
it's own interface and needs another daemon to talk to it, so it's not
possible to access it via a classic linux device file. I'd like to make
it accessible via iSCSI by writing a new driver (or backing-store, not
sure how you call it) that handles read/write/open/close requests by
talking to to that daemon through its native interface... That's why
I've chosen "bs_rdwr.c" as a reference. I thought it would be sufficient
to replace the functions there and use it as a
driver/backing-store/device-type. But maybe I didn't understand tgt's
architecture right... any help or documentation would be greatly
appreciated!
The device size (the number of sectors) is stored in struct
scsi_lu. The sector size depends on what device type you want to
use. If you are trying something with disk (sbc), then the following
patch might be useful for you:
http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/stgt/2009-December/003469.html
So, in order to set the correct sector-size I have to apply that patch
and start "tgtd" manually? I thought that "tgtd" is only started by
"tgt-admin"!? And what about the number of sectors of a device? I mean,
if a SCSI READ_CAPACITY command comes in, the device's sector-size and
number of sectors have to be determined somehow! I've looked at the
code, but couldn't find an explanation...
After reading the patch description, I also wonder how to select the
type of device or driver. The "tgt-admin" man-page doesn't describe how
to choose between e.g. bs_rdwr, bs_ssc, bs_sg etc...
Regards
JK
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