On 01/17/2013 12:56 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > 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 [CCing rrs@xxxxxxxxxx] No... actually upstream targetcli/rtslib are not very well maintained. Around 5 patches each in the last year. Meanwhile, I have been actively maintaining branches at github.com/agrover/targetcli-fb and github.com/agrover/rtslib-fb. We have a man page and screencasts even. Feel free to file bugs against them and I'll respond. But I'm only packaging for Fedora/RHEL, so random people on Debian etc. get a bad experience. I'd like to see upstream accept my AGPLv3-licensed patches, or have Debian package the -fb versions, either instead or in addition to the upstream versions. (I'd kinda been waiting to bring it up until upstream had no commits in a year, but since you mentioned it...) 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