Re: [OSR-devel] iSCSI Mods - Changed Files Attached

[Gordan B. <go...@bo...>]

>>>>> I have attached a tar ball of files that I changed (or added) in the
>>>>> standard setup to get iSCSI to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let me know if I omitted anything.
>>>>>
>>>>> There is probably some pruning that could be done to this (I went for
>>>>> including full RPMs + configs), which was arguably sub-optimal - there is
>>>>> likely to be some docs/man pages included (not that anyone is likely to
>>>>> notice next to 70MB of drivers :^).
>>>>>
>>>>> I also hard-removed (C)LVM stuff - something that you probably won't want
>>>>> to merge into the main tree.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for all the help over the last few days, and for accepting my
>>>>> patches. I really appreciate it. This is by far the most postive OSS
>>>>> experience I have had to date. :-)
>>>>>
>>>> Attached you'll find the latest rpm with iscsi included.
>>>> Last thing you should have to have is either rootsource=iscsi as bootparam or
>>>> in com_info <rootsource name="iscsi"/>.
>>>> Also add to the /etc/comoonics/bootimage/files.initrd.d/user_edit.list
>>>> the /var/lib/iscsi/nodes/iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic\:1-234567-89abcdef0-123456789abcdef0-ssi-root/10.10.10.1\,3260
>>>>
>>>> Let me know if it works.
>>>
>>> It appears to be broken. The new initrd fails to fire up iSCSI. Where my
>>> old hard-coded version would modprobe the required modules and start up
>>> iscsid and iscsi, the new version doesn't.
>>>
>>> I added <rootsource name="iscsi"/> to the com_info section on every node.
>>>
>>> Did I miss something?
>>
>> I just added the rootsource=iscsi kernel boot option, and that doesn't fix
>> it. Carefully looking at the screen log, the iSCSI TCP transport module
>> does appear to get loaded, but the iscsid and iscsi services don't get
>> started.
>
> Hmm... It looks like iSCSI is getting started correctly after all. It does
> come up and brings up the block device. The problem is somewhere else. It
> may be a good idea to not silence the iscsi startup, just for easier
> overview of what happens and what doesn't (unless you particularly object
> to a few green OKs among the blues).

Something very weird is happening. With full debug enabled, configfs 
module is loaded, but mounting the configfs fails. :-/

Gordan