iSCSI already has lots of parameters that effect transfer sizes, io flow, timeouts, etc. Instead of hiding these new parameters in iscsi.conf how about making these "vendor specific" parameters and have them managed though the same management interfaces (ie. iscsiadm). The iscsi.conf parameters tend to be misused if anything. The only intended iscsi.conf parameter was mpxio-disable=yes since that matched what was done with scsi_vhci.conf, fcp.conf, and srp.conf. (The other iscsi.conf parameters are ones that were slipped in by a developer and didn't really match the management goals of the rest of the software at the time. One might consider prompting or removing those if they are really used. These are related to TCP socket options.)
The other advantage of using iscsiadm. Is if you follow the same management style with those parameters they could be updated without requiring a reboot. This is more work but would lead to a more consistent / usable product. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
