On 05/09/2012 12:14 PM, Mike Christie wrote: > On 05/09/2012 03:59 AM, Vanush "Misha" Paturyan wrote: >> On 9 May 2012 06:24, Mike Christie <micha...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >>> On 05/08/2012 06:36 AM, Vanush "Misha" Paturyan wrote: >>>> On 7 May 2012 22:32, Mike Christie <micha...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >>>>> On 05/04/2012 02:58 PM, Richard wrote: >>>>>> I'm using open-iscsi to connect to an OpenIndiana COMSTAR target. I >>>>>> have aliases set on the LUs on the COMSTAR side. Is there a way to >>>>>> retrieve those from open-iscsi? (I'd like to have a udev rule to give >>>>>> me nice names.) >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Open iscsi does not have this. You have to use one of the sg utils tools >>>>> to. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Any examples? >>> >>> Huh. For some reason I thought we added support for this in lsscsi >>> (http://sg.danny.cz/scsi/lsscsi.html) a long time ago. >> >> Correct me if I'm wrong, but if lsscsi uses information in sysfs, then it >> relies >> on something else to populate it (sysfs that is)? Would this not be >> the function >> of Open SCSI? >> > > I do not think it belongs in open-iscsi because it is not iscsi > specific. You would want it for your FC devices too. It makes sense for > a util like lscsi to do this because its job is to give you info about > devices. > > But yeah, I remember why it did not go into lsscsi. I think it was > because of the sysfs thing and Doug did not want users to have to be > root. And you need to send a sg io to get the info. >
Wait, just to make sure we are on the same page, you guys are not talking about the target name alias are you? If so that is iscsi specific and it should be displayed by iscsiadm. We just recently added support to the kernel for that, so iscsiadm support should be done soon. -- 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 open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi?hl=en.
