On 2005.11.14 22:31:52 +0000, Bastiaan Bakker wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 09:48 +0000, Greg Cope wrote:
> > I'd be very interested in a simple guide as to how you do this (the
> > booting off iscsi/bonding bit).
>
> Well, basically the initrd is a modified version of the disklessrc for
> NFS root systems in the system-config-netboot package. It does DHCP,
> sets up the network interfaces, starts up iscsid, inits RAD and finally
> switches to the new root filesystem.
> I'll try to publish the mkinitrd-iscsi and admin RPMs and preliminary
> documentation tomorrow or at least this week.
Great! Have you tried to make it work with open-iscsi? I wanna help on that
one. And another thing is PXE boot, using pxelinux and tftp seems "that should
be working" for me, anyone has experience on this?
zhen
>
> Bastiaan
>
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-11-14 at 10:27 +0100, Bastiaan Bakker wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 22:53 -0500, Mike Mazarick wrote:
> > > > Greetings boys and girls!!
> > > >
> > > > As I pointed out earlier, I finally figured out to turn off the firewall in
> > > > FC4 so that ietd would work with the Windows initiator (thought I'd mention
> > > > it again so others don't try a bunch of other stuff first like I did). OK,
> > > > so I'm moving on to bigger and better things...
> > >
> > > Rather than turning your firewall off completely, creating a hole for
> > > TCP port 3260 should suffice, AFAIK.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I have also been playing with the Linux iSCSI initiator after playing with
> > > > the Windows one. It seems like it was not quite as well documented or as
> > > > easy to set up as the ietd target. For instance, there was an error in the
> > > > source code such that the number of parameters in the variable "__nlmsg_put"
> > > > (which is in several iscsi*.c files) is different than specified by
> > > > netlink.h in the kernel (where it is defined). The "flags" field needs to
> > > > be set to "0" so that it will compile. I didn't trace it back far enough to
> > > > know if the kernel file "netlink.h" had changed recently. I've not noticed
> > > > anything in the mailing lists about this. I did notice that some familiar
> > > > names around here (like Ming and Fujita) are thanked as part of the testing
> > > > effort. I also noticed that two initiator projects have been combined into
> > > > one (that's probably a good idea so it can obtain "critical mass"). I have
> > > > been reading with interest that there are two different packages... I have
> > > > been working with the "version 5, latest and greatest" and haven't noticed
> > > > that.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using the packages as specified in the SourceForge page:
> > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-iscsi
> > > >
> > > > Is this what everyone else is using for a linux iSCSI initiator? Are there
> > >
> > > I've been using linux-iscsi-3.6, which is included in RHEL 3 (U5+) and
> > > linux-iscsi-4.0 which is included in RHEL4 (U2+).
> > >
> > > > instructions for this particular software package that will show you how to
> > > > boot diskless (that are good)? What has been other people's experiences
> > >
> > > I've created a custom mkinitrd-iscsi tool for booting the diskless
> > > servers in our datacenter. Besides regular diskless boot it supports
> > > some high availability features like mirroring the root fs on two
> > > iscsi-targets and bonding ethernet.
> > > Currently it supports RHEL3 only (RHEL4 is in the works), but now that
> > > open-iscsi is merged in the kernel I hope to be able to port to
> > > FC5-devel soon.
> > > I you are interested let me know.
> > >
> > > > with this package? Is this the same package that has been put in the
> > > > official linux kernel?
> > >
> > > Yes and no :-)
> > > Last week iSCSI initiator code from the open-iscsi project has been
> > > merged into 2.6.15rc1. This code is different from the linux-iscsi code
> > > in RHEL3 and RHEL4. But last spring the linux-iscsi and open-iscsi
> > > projects have merged and decided to continue with the open-iscsi code.
> > > So linux-iscsi-5 code is equivalent to open-iscsi.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Bastiaan
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Mike Mazarick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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