Q: "- PDU header Digest" fetaure

2009-02-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hello, when browsing the open-iscsi feature list, I found: - PDU header Digest; Does this mean that data digests are not supported? A bugzilla at readhat near mid of 2007 seems to confirm this. I see the performance impact, but is there another reason against implementing it? Can I safely a

Re: How to expand a Linux Ext volume.

2009-02-25 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:14:47AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a related question: Some of the modern SAN disk systems allow a LUN > resize. > Does open-iscsi support "resized disks" in any way? I mean: Will the kernel > detect > that the disk has a new size? That depends

Re: Q: "- PDU header Digest" fetaure

2009-02-25 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hello, > > when browsing the open-iscsi feature list, I found: > - PDU header Digest; > > Does this mean that data digests are not supported? A bugzilla at readhat > near mid I am quite sure it is supported. > of 2007 seems t

Re: Q: "- PDU header Digest" fetaure

2009-02-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 25 Feb 2009 at 8:55, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > when browsing the open-iscsi feature list, I found: > > - PDU header Digest; > > > > Does this mean that data digests are not supported? A bugzilla at readh

Re: [PATCH 1/2 2.6.29-rc] libiscsi - change iscsi_session_failure() to take iscsi_session pointer

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Christie
Karen Xie wrote: > [PATCH 1/2 2.6.29-rc] libiscsi - change iscsi_session_failure() to take > iscsi_session pointer > > From: Karen Xie > I guess the From: got messed up. I am not sure if James cares or not. James, I actually wrote the patch for Karen, and she has been using and testing it o

Re: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of chip reset

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Christie
Karen Xie wrote: > [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add support of chip reset > > From: Karen Xie > > The cxgb3 driver would reset the chip due to an EEH event or a fatal error > and notifies the upper layer modules (iscsi, rdma). > Upon receiving the notification the cxgb3i driver would > - clo

Re: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of chip reset

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Christie
Some other comments about the host and snic allocation. Karen Xie wrote: > +/** > + * cxgb3i_adapter_open - initiate or update a s3 adapter structure and > + * any h/w settings > + * @t3dev: t3cdev adapter > + */ > +static inline int adapter_update(struct cxgb3i_adapter *snic) The function na

Re: Q: "- PDU header Digest" fetaure

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Christie
Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hello, > > when browsing the open-iscsi feature list, I found: > - PDU header Digest; > Is that from suse's docs or open-iscsi.orgs? > Does this mean that data digests are not supported? A bugzilla at readhat > near mid > of 2007 seems to confirm this. Data digests wer

RE: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of chip reset

2009-02-25 Thread Karen Xie
-Original Message- From: Mike Christie [mailto:micha...@cs.wisc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:22 AM To: Karen Xie Cc: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com; linux-s...@vger.kernel.org; james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of ch

RE: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of chip reset

2009-02-25 Thread Karen Xie
-Original Message- From: Mike Christie [mailto:micha...@cs.wisc.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:30 AM To: Karen Xie Cc: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com; linux-s...@vger.kernel.org; james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 2.6.29-rc] cxgb3i - add handling of ch

iscsi boot without ibft but using ibft sysfs code

2009-02-25 Thread Mike Christie
Hey Konrad and other boot guys, If we have a driver that does not support ibft, but we need to somehow export the iscsi info used for boot to userspace how do you think we should go about this? I was thinking that 1. We could libify some of the ibft sysfs code, so drivers could call some help

Can I have multiple Windows Hosts accessing the same IP SAN Volume?

2009-02-25 Thread daviddiz...@gmail.com
I have one stone fly storage concentrator and 2 windows host and Linux host are attached with it. Can I have multiple Windows Hosts accessing the same IP SAN Volume? Thanks David --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Goo

Can anybody give Stone Fly OptiSAN Specifications

2009-02-25 Thread prince.josep...@gmail.com
I heard about a stone fly product called Stone Fly OptiSAN Cluster HA. Can anybody give specifications for this product, is this a stable product compared to other IP SAN's in market. Thanks in advance Prince. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becau

Re: Can I have multiple Windows Hosts accessing the same IP SAN Volume?

2009-02-25 Thread StorageSolutionGroup
Through the use of StoneFlys Access Control List, you can assign multiple Hosts access to the same volume. The options available are Read Only or Read/Write Access. If more than one host has Read/Write access to the same volume it is very important that only one Host at a time accesses a particula

Re: Can anybody give Stone Fly OptiSAN Specifications

2009-02-25 Thread StorageSolutionGroup
Hi Prince, here are some specifications for stonefly optisan. IT Supports 16 SAS or SATA Disk Drives and allows Expansion up to 256 Disks.It is having Dual Active-Active RAID Controllers with Transparent Failover and Failback Operation and Out-of-Band Ethernet Interface for Remote Status Monitor

Re: iscsi boot without ibft but using ibft sysfs code

2009-02-25 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:25:44PM -0600, Mike Christie wrote: > Hey Konrad and other boot guys, > > If we have a driver that does not support ibft, but we need to somehow > export the iscsi info used for boot to userspace how do you think we should > go about this? > > I was thinking that > 1.

Re: iscsi boot without ibft but using ibft sysfs code

2009-02-25 Thread Michael Brown
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 22:47:12 Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > This is nice because the tools only have to look in one place, but I am > > not sure if this type of stuff can also go under the /sys/firmware dir. > > True. Would have to change the parent tree. Maybe to to /sys/boot' (or > /sys/i

Re: Q: "- PDU header Digest" feature

2009-02-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 25 Feb 2009 at 11:38, Mike Christie wrote: > > Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > when browsing the open-iscsi feature list, I found: > > - PDU header Digest; > > > > Is that from suse's docs or open-iscsi.orgs? Hi Mike, it was from the README you had sent me recently. Inside it's dat

Re: Can anybody give Stone Fly OptiSAN Specifications

2009-02-25 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 25 Feb 2009 at 11:17, prince.josep...@gmail.com wrote: > > I heard about a stone fly product called Stone Fly OptiSAN Cluster HA. > Can anybody give specifications for this product, is this a stable > product compared to other IP SAN's in market. Hi! I think the most natural place to ask fo