Feature Request: dynamically update max_lun

2008-05-05 Thread Stefan de Konink
Unlike the scsi module paramater max_luns, iscsi's max_lun cannot be set on the fly. It requires unloading the module and loading it again. Would it be possible to add the functionality? Yours Sincerely, Stefan de Konink --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: iscsi root on Gentoo

2008-05-08 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 8 May 2008, aspasia wrote: > Just wanted to find out if anyone has successfully booted a diskless > server over iscsi on a Gentoo distro? If so, did you follow a How2, > and if you don't mind to share the link? But don't you think everything is virtually the same :) I mean, what happen

target*/*/block:change

2008-05-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
What was the reason for adding the block device name to the block symlink if this symlink already provides this name? It probably breaks everything that uses this block path directly to find out the device it is pointing to. Stefan --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Suggestion: creating a shared library

2008-05-14 Thread Stefan de Konink
Hi, In the libvirt project we have stumbled upon a problem related to name changes of sys-fs. Looking at the Makefiles of open-iscsi and its usertools, I wonder if we can make it more easy for other projects using open-iscsi. I propose to move the shared sourcecode of ISCSI_LIB_SRCS into a new s

Re: Maximum LUN support

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Shrey wrote: > I started using/studying open-iscsi recently. I was wondering if there > is any hard-coded limit to number of targets devices that can > discovered per iSCSI target? Is there any hard-coded limit on the > number of LUNs supported per target device (assuming tha

Re: Suggestion: creating a shared library

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Wed, 14 May 2008, Mike Christie wrote: > Are you going to make it? If so search through the list for others that > were working on it so you can work together. I have got busy with other > sutff so I have not been able to finish it. Hopefully after the offload > card support is done I can get

Re: Maximum LUN support

2008-05-15 Thread Stefan de Konink
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Shrey wrote: > On May 15, 12:39 pm, Stefan de Konink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 May 2008, Shrey wrote: > > > I started using/studying open-iscsi recently. I was wondering if there > > > is any hard-coded limit to n

Re: Reducing amount of logmessages openiscsi/multipath

2008-08-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
ely I think hacking the daemon to suppress would be trivial, but I presume any advanced syslog daemon can do the same. I wonder if it is the multipath daemon that produces the end_requests, and not something like udev/hal. But you are a Tweaker, you must be able to verify that ;) Yours Since

Re: Extremely slow read performance, but write speeds are near-perfect!

2008-09-12 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Eijkhoudt schreef: > On Sep 12, 3:49 pm, Konrad Rzeszutek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can you try to copy the file from the iSCSI target to /dev/null? > > Yes, no difference. It's still going at a decidedly unimpressive 1.5MB/ > sec. So what ab