[CentOS] Persistent iSCSI Device Names on CentOS 4

[Jay Leafey]

I found a lot of stuff about this on the web, but never an answer that worked. One of the most promising hints was about udev maintaining links in the /dev/disk/by-* directories. This works just fine in CentOS 5, but not CentOS 4. As I was trying to use the iSCSI devices as VMware disks this was particularly frustrating. After banging my head on this for a while, I figured out how to make it work.

Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Openfile Model: Virtual disk     Rev: 0
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 04

The fix for me was to add the following line to my iscsi_id.config file:

vendor=Openfile, model="Virtual disk", options=-g



Hope that helps somebody!
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Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN
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By default, iSCSI devices don't show up in the /dev/disk/by-* directories maintained by udev under CentOS 4. After looking at the scripts used by udev, it appeared that the scsi_id program was not returning anything for the iSCSI devices. Digging in the manpage and the /etc/scsi_id.config file led me to believe that the devices in question were "blacklisted" and never returned a valid device ID. The fix was to add a line to scsi_id.config to whitelist the particular devices. In my case, the iSCSI devices are provided by on Openfiler box, which shows up in /proc/scsi/scsi like this: The values for "vendor=" and "model=" will vary with the specific iSCSI target used. After adding this and rebooting, udev now properly maintains the links in /dev/disk/by-id/ for each of the iSCSI devices offered up to my workstation.

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