Mike Christie wrote:

> On 11/30/2011 11:46 AM, Jeremy Sanders wrote:
>> Hi - We have some working Fedora 14 diskless systems with root on iscsi. 
>> On upgrading to Fedora 16 the system seems to hang if the network
>> connection to the target is lost and regained.
>> 
> 
> Did you use the installer from fedora to setup iscsi root or did you do
> a custom solution? What about on fedora 16?

We're using a semi-custom solution - the same on both F14 and 16. We rsync a 
standard Fedora disk-based root to an iscsi target. We take the standard 
Fedora vmlinuz and initrd (after being created using dracut with network 
booting enabled) and boot these using pxeboot (served over tftp). A dhcp 
server provides the root-path option to tell the initrd where the root is.

We modify the /etc/iscsi/iscsid.conf file on the root disk to change the 
suggested options. Perhaps this is now too late in the boot sequence, but 
wouldn't "iscsiadm -m node  -o show" show what iscsid is running with?

> On the F16 system is iscsid running?

Apparently (systemctl reports the service as running):
root       795  0.0  0.0  12908   656 ?        Ss   Nov30   0:01 iscsid
root       796  0.0  0.1  15796  5576 ?        S<Ls Nov30   0:04 iscsid

> I think systemd is not starting up iscsid correctly in some cases in
> F16. Are you using network manager for the networking?

We're not using network manager - we're using the network init script (which 
needs modification because it shuts down the network before the shutdown 
sequence has completed.

Maybe we should try a standard F16 install onto iscsi and see whether the 
reconnection works...

Thanks very much

Jeremy


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