Bug#598773: [Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-02 Thread Guido Günther
On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 11:20:47PM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 00:07 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > > On Friday 01 Oct 2010 23:12:23 Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > > > BTW, why does multipath + iSCSI Root need multiple paths ? One single > > > > path should su

Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-01 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Am Samstag, den 02.10.2010, 00:07 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > On Friday 01 Oct 2010 23:12:23 Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > > BTW, why does multipath + iSCSI Root need multiple paths ? One single > > > path should suffice. > > > > If this single path fails, the system won't boot any longer.

Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-01 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Friday 01 Oct 2010 23:12:23 Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > > BTW, why does multipath + iSCSI Root need multiple paths ? One single > > path should suffice. > > If this single path fails, the system won't boot any longer. Are you using this config (that of multipath iSCSI Paths for the Root LUN

Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-01 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Am Freitag, den 01.10.2010, 22:24 +0530 schrieb Ritesh Raj Sarraf: > I don't see anything wrong in adding it but does this really have a need ? > Once the real init is reached and the real iscsid daemon starts, it will > login > into all the target portals. Right. > BTW, why does multipath + iS

Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-01 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello Norbert, I don't see anything wrong in adding it but does this really have a need ? Once the real init is reached and the real iscsid daemon starts, it will login into all the target portals. I see only a small window where you have only a single path to the LUN. Without the daemon, I'm n

Bug#598773: Support multiple iSCSI target IPs in initramfs

2010-10-01 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
Package: open-iscsi Version: 2.0.870~rc3-0.4.1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch When using multipath with iSCSI for the rootfs, it is required that you access the iSCSI target on more than one IP address. To get this work in the initramfs already, please apply the attached patch, which allows to set