Hi Christophe, On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 22:06 +0200, Christophe Vu-Brugier wrote: > Hi, > > I use the LIO iSCSI target and I am very happy with it. > > I would like to register my iSCSI targets to an iSNS server. I found > this page on linux-iscsi.org, but its content seems outdated. > > http://linux-iscsi.org/wiki/ISNS > > I tried linuxisns [1] and open-isns [2] but I did not manage to make > them work. Moreover, they are probably not maintained anymore. > Indeed, these codebases have not gotten some love in a number of years.. > What is the best user space tool to register a LIO iSCSI target with > an iSNS server? Unfortunately, there is not yet an iSNS client that works with the modern iscsi-target code. > Also, since the iSCSI target is implemented in the > Linux kernel, would that make sense to implement an iSNS client in the > kernel too? Are there plans for that or do you think it's better to > implement this feature in user space? > There is no requirement for the iSNS client to reside kernel-space, and it makes the most sense for it to be a user-space process. Really, all a simple iSNS client needs to do is walk the configfs / rtslib hierarchy, and report the current iscsi-target configuration (eg: TargetName+TargetPortalGroupTag + Network Portals) to the iSNS server. It should also be smart enough to query and unregister entities that no longer exist in the local configuration. --nab -- 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
