On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:09:15 +0100 Matteo Tescione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5-02-2008 14:38, "FUJITA Tomonori" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:01 +0100 > > Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> James Bottomley schrieb: > >> > >>> These are both features being independently worked on, are they not? > >>> Even if they weren't, the combination of the size of SCST in kernel plus > >>> the problem of having to find a migration path for the current STGT > >>> users still looks to me to involve the greater amount of work. > >> > >> I don't want to be mean, but does anyone actually use STGT in > >> production? Seriously? > >> > >> In the latest development version of STGT, it's only possible to stop > >> the tgtd target daemon using KILL / 9 signal - which also means all > >> iSCSI initiator connections are corrupted when tgtd target daemon is > >> started again (kernel upgrade, target daemon upgrade, server reboot etc.). > > > > I don't know what "iSCSI initiator connections are corrupted" > > mean. But if you reboot a server, how can an iSCSI target > > implementation keep iSCSI tcp connections? > > > > > >> Imagine you have to reboot all your NFS clients when you reboot your NFS > >> server. Not only that - your data is probably corrupted, or at least the > >> filesystem deserves checking... > > Don't know if matters, but in my setup (iscsi on top of drbd+heartbeat) > rebooting the primary server doesn't affect my iscsi traffic, SCST correctly > manages stop/crash, by sending unit attention to clients on reconnect. > Drbd+heartbeat correctly manages those things too. > Still from an end-user POV, i was able to reboot/survive a crash only with > SCST, IETD still has reconnect problems and STGT are even worst. Can you tell us the details of your tgt configuration? The git head of tgt can handle Unit Attention condition though it's not tested much. _______________________________________________ Stgt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/stgt-devel
