On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 12:56 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > On Thu, 2013-01-17 at 02:19 +0100, Andreas Steinmetz wrote: > > This is not a technical point of view. This is a more or less political > > and user point of view. And for any replies, I'm not subscribed (haven't > > been now for years). > > > > As a user, I was in need for an iSCSI target. Actually, I needed to > > export a SAS tape device (Ultrium 5) - which is one of the devices still > > sufficiently expensive to go the iSCSI target way) - well, not any disks > > (cheap enough, NFS available) or CD/DVD writers (I'd call these penny > > targets nowadays). > > > > Thus, lio (http://www.linux-iscsi.org/) seemed to be the politically and > > technically favoured solution. Except: it simply doesn't work, userspace > > utilities are seemingly not maintained, > > I'm not sure what you mean. There are targetcli+rtslib packages are > available for virtually every distribution > > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Targetcli#Linux_distributions > > > the web site is - simply put - > > sales talk and when one tries to write manually to configfs the results > > are kernel panics. > > Then your hitting a bug with pSCSI export with TYPE_TAPE. That's what > your trying to do right..? > > > > > A little bit more detail: > > > > Oh, well, maybe I do expect too much when a certain commercial > > institution calls LIO "the standard open-source storage Target". Maybe > > one should not expect typical hardware to be supported except, maybe, > > when a commercial contract exists... > > > > Though the only chance to get the LIO target working for me was to try > > to write hopefully proper values to configfs manually. Without any > > usable documentation, that is. The result was: kernel panics (@hch: > > don't ask me how to repeat - hire some apes hacking at LIO configfs, > > that's whats required, apes need no documentation, either). > > > > The full API reference for rtslib is available here: > > http://www.risingtidesystems.com/doc/rtslib-gpl/html/ > > As for targetcli, you'll want to use the in-line documenation available > within the shell. > > http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Targetcli#Display_helphttp://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Targetcli#Display_help Also, as listed under: http://www.linux-iscsi.org/wiki/Targetcli#Quick_start_guide The community documentation for rtsadmin/targetcli is available in the RTS-OS Admin manual here: http://www.risingtidesystems.com/doc/RTS%20OS%20Admin%20Manual%20CE.pdf The sections of interest for the end-user shell are: 5. RTSadmin Quick Start Guide 6. RTSadmin Concepts 7. RTSadmin Commands 8. RTSadmin Contexts 9. RTSadmin Examples Again, if you've come across a bug with pSCSI + TYPE_TAPE export, please let us know. -- 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
