Bart Van Assche wrote: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Mike Christie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Bart Van Assche wrote: >> > Has anyone here experience with letting the open-iscsi initiator >> > connect to an iSCSI target system on which many (hundreds) of target >> > have been configured ? From a certain number of targets on the >> > open-iscsi initiator starts complaining that the buffer size is too >> > small. Can I increase the 32768 byte buffer limit without recompiling >> > open-iscsi ? >> >> Do you see this error during discovery? What is the error exactly? > > This error did indeed happen during discovery (against an OpenSolaris > iSCSI target): > > # dpkg -l open-iscsi > ... > ii open-iscsi 2.0.865-1 High performance, transport independent iSCS > # iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 10.100.101.51 > iscsiadm: buffer size 32768 too small for data length 32768 >
Yeah, that is the silly bug that was fixed in http://www.open-iscsi.org/bits/open-iscsi-2.0-869-rc2.tar.gz. We were doing a >= instead of a >. > >> In http://www.open-iscsi.org/bits/open-iscsi-2.0-865.15.tar.gz you can set: >> >> # To specify the maximum number of data bytes the initiator can receive >> # in an iSCSI PDU from a target during a discovery session, edit the >> # following line. >> # >> # The value is the number of bytes in the range of 512 to (2^24-1) and >> # the default is 32768 >> # >> discovery.sendtargets.iscsi.MaxRecvDataSegmentLength = 32768 >> >> Some targets have a limit of 64K and there is a bug where we do not >> handle multiple pdus correctly. >> >> In http://www.open-iscsi.org/bits/open-iscsi-2.0-869-rc2.tar.gz you can >> set the same value and the pdu handling should be fixed. > > This works a lot better: > > # /open-iscsi-2.0-869-rc2/sbin/iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p > 10.100.101.51 | wc > 889 1778 84341 > > Thanks for providing a solution so quickly. Has it already been > decided when open-iscsi version 2.0-869 will be released ? > I am going to try and get it out the same time 2.6.25 is released. Thanks for testing. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
