Issue with iSCSI & Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread eriksejr
Hello, I've recently setup a Synology DS1512+ NAS as an iSCSI target and so far everything seems to be working fine with one exception. The kernel is filling my messages log with the lines below. This is getting spammed in there every couple of seconds, the only difference seems to be the sector

Issue with Open-iSCSI on Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread eriksejr
Hello, I recently got a synology DS1512+ NAS and configured it as an iSCSI target. I had no problem with the configuration nor with getting it to connect, login and mount the drive. The problem is whats showing up in my system logs: Apr 8 00:42:43 mythbox kernel: [564210.444354] sd 17:0:0:0: [

Re: Issue with Open-iSCSI on Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread Mike Christie
On 4/8/13 5:17 PM, eriks...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it WRITE SAME is an optional command to improve performance not supported by every device. Is it possible to disable its use, or at the very least, stop the kernel/driver from filling the logs with these messages? The open-iscsi dri

Re: Issue with Open-iSCSI on Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread eriksejr
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:40:32 AM UTC-4, Mike Christie wrote: > > The open-iscsi driver has no control over this. I think there is a ext4 > mounting option to control the feature. I think in newer kernels the > scsi layer will disable the use of the feature when you get the first > illegal

checksumming with stable pages?

2013-04-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I just read about "stable pages" in Linux > 3.8: Wasn't the reason for checksumming not working in open-iscsi that page contents might be altered before being transmitted? To me it looks as if there is a solution with stable pages now, but I was just browsing the surface... Maybe Mike is w

Re: Issue with Open-iSCSI on Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread Mike Christie
On 04/09/2013 07:58 AM, eriks...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:40:32 AM UTC-4, Mike Christie wrote: > > The open-iscsi driver has no control over this. I think there is a ext4 > mounting option to control the feature. I think in newer kernels the > scsi layer wil

Re: checksumming with stable pages?

2013-04-09 Thread Mike Christie
On 04/09/2013 09:49 AM, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Hi! > > I just read about "stable pages" in Linux > 3.8: Wasn't the reason for > checksumming not working in open-iscsi that page contents might be altered > before being transmitted? To me it looks as if there is a solution with > stable pages now,

Re: Issue with Open-iSCSI on Fedora 18 & Ext4

2013-04-09 Thread eriksejr
On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:09:47 PM UTC-4, Mike Christie wrote: > > On 04/09/2013 07:58 AM, erik...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday, April 9, 2013 8:40:32 AM UTC-4, Mike Christie wrote: > > > > The open-iscsi driver has no control over this. I think there is a > ext4 > >