On Dec 5, 2012, at 10:36 PM, Lee Duncan <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Mike Christie <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/04/2012 06:58 PM, Lee Duncan wrote:
>>> On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Mike Christie <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 12/04/2012 05:22 PM, Lee Duncan wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mike:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I am trying to create a Persistent Reservations test suite for iSCSI 
>>>>> targets, and i was wondering if I could use open-iscsi on the initiator 
>>>>> side to do that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Part of the requirement is that I need to support multiple I_T Nexuses, 
>>>>> since Group Reservations are based on the I_T Nexus. If I can send from 
>>>>> multiple initiators on the same host, I could eliminate the current 
>>>>> requirement to test from multiple hosts.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> You can create multiple initiators. Just create ifaces with different
>>>> initiator names. The problem though is that the iSID is not persistent
>>>> across logins, so if you were to login/logout using iscsiadm from the
>>>> target for any reason then the persistent reservations are going to get
>>>> messed up.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Would that be a problem for Persisting a reservation in general, then?
>> 
>> Not sure what you mean exactly. If you are using the reservation for
>> just the life of the session then no, but I do not think that is common.
>> It seems like you are likely to reboot your box or login/logout of the
>> target once in a while.
>> 
>> 
> 
> The idea with Persistent Reservations is that they should persist across 
> target power outages.
> 
> But if the iSID changes with a new connection, then when the target comes 
> back it might not recognize the

As long as you do not run iscsiadm ….  --logout then iscsiadm …. --login you 
are ok. The iSID is based on the session->id, and that only changes when a new 
session struct is allocated.  The session struct is only allocated a iscsiadm … 
-login time.

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