On 11/20/2016 04:45 PM, Lee Duncan wrote: > I use socket activation for SUSE because we want open-iscsi installed > by default but not running. There was an effort to reduce the number > of default-running services, and it takes an act of congress to add > a new default-running service now. The approach now is to give > the end-user more choice in which services are running, rather than > choosing for them. > > But socket activation allows iscsid to only be started the first > time it’s needed, and that was an acceptable alternative to > having the daemon running all the time.
But how does that interact with your boot process? - Don't you run iscsiadm -m node --loginall=automatic? Doesn't that start iscsid automatically, regardless of the startup setting, because it will send a request along the socket? And since there is no idle logic in iscsid, will that not keep running by default anyway? - How do you start iscsid if a session is configured in via the initramfs (i.e. rootfs on iSCSI, using iscsistart), but there is no session in the database, if your daemon is only ever socket-activated? > We have a separate service for iscsi sessions, layered on top > of the daemon service, but I can see this sequence happening > for us if the user has the session service enabled but manually > kills iscsid. Out of curiosity: how does your startup logic work precisely? I personally think it'd be interesting to see what other distros do. (That said: I don't think that we can adopt this in Debian anytime soon, definitely not for the next Debian release, as we must support legacy configuration from previous upgrades, and previously people could configure all sorts of stuff that was done at boot time by some script that I personally want to get rid of at some point in the future.) Regards, Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "open-iscsi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to open-iscsi+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to open-iscsi@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/open-iscsi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
