On 10/10/2012 03:08 PM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: >> lio_node is an iscsi-target fabric specific CLI tool (part of lio-utils) >> that is the legacy CLI method of driving configfs group layout >> of /sys/kernel/config/target/iscsi/. > > Which is my only need, currently. But as you say, given that lio_node > is CLI, it makes it easy to automatically shell script up a > configuration based on devices found on a node, etc. without requiring a > user to drive the interface. I don't know if targetcli really has any > way to drive it from a shell script like that. targetcli-fb can be driven from the commandline/scripts. You can also use the rtslib Python library directly for programmatic target configuration, if using Python is an option. >> As Andy mentioned, Fedora uses JSON for persistent configuration with >> targetcli+rtslib, so you'll want to use the official user-space >> targetcli package that RHAT ships for best results in your case. > > Except that RHAT's implementation does not include the iscsi spec so it > can't configure iscsi without one manually dropping the spec in. Not a > biggie, just a note to mention that RHAT doesn't really officially > support configuring iscsi with it. But then again, they don't ship and > support the target driver either -- at the EL6 level at least. Yup. targetcli is only there for fcoe target, really -- tgtd is the supported iscsi target for rhel6. rhel7 will support all kernel target fabrics. Regards -- Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
