On Tuesday 24 February 2009 07:57:32 shyam_i...@dell.com wrote:
(I don't see why you would want to modify the iBFT anyway, but that's a
separate issue.)
Part of it is out of lazyness and I guess sysadmins will agree. I don't
want the system to reboot to reconfigure the target IP addresses
-Original Message-
From: Michael Brown [mailto:mbr...@fensystems.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 2:13 PM
To: Iyer, Shyam
Cc: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [RFC]-Sysfs attributes of /sys/firmware/ibft files
On Tuesday 24 February 2009 07:57:32 shyam_i...@dell.com
Sorry. I clicked on send before the mail completed.
Michael wrote:
It sounds as though you're expecting that making changes to the iBFT
would cause the iSCSI initiator to change its configuration. I don't
think this is going to be the case; it definitely won't happen in the
case of gPXE.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:16:04PM +0530, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote:
Does anyone know the reason for file attributes of the files created in
/sys/firmware/ibft//files being readonly?
Yes. The spec does not allow you to write to the iBFT - only read.
The BIOS (or the firmware on the NIC, or
Konrad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:16:04PM +0530, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote:
Does anyone know the reason for file attributes of the files created
in /sys/firmware/ibft//files being readonly?
Yes. The spec does not allow you to write to the iBFT - only read.
Thanks Konrad. I guess I
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:27:08PM +0530, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote:
Konrad wrote:
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:16:04PM +0530, shyam_i...@dell.com wrote:
Does anyone know the reason for file attributes of the files created
in /sys/firmware/ibft//files being readonly?
Yes. The spec
