Hi Folks On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 09:52 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > > I'm afraid I really don't know much about open-iscsi and the details > > why this patch was introduced. James, would be great if you can > > provide some background. > > > > One reason to have support in the installer is to have your rootfs on a > SAN device. Anaconda has had it for years. So I'm sure these patches > must have the same intent for Ubuntu Enterprise LTS. > That is the case; I used todo most of the install to iSCSI target testing at the time, and this got picked up during testing one release. > > Ubuntu debian-installer does have some differences, but it's > > generally the same. Does d-i really start services during > > installation? I would have expected it to install a temporary > > policy-rc.d, as presumably many services would fail in > > the d-i environment still. Then calling update-initramfs would put > > the > > dummy initiator config into the generated initrd which would fail to > > boot. > > > > But supposedly you tried to set up open-iscsi in the Debian > > installer. > > Does that work, or maybe Debian's d-i does not even offer to set up > > open-iscsi? Ubuntu's does, that might be the important difference > > here. > > I think D-I currently does not have the support. There was a patch from > Ubuntu, some years ago, for an open-iscsi udeb, which is already part > of the packaging. But I never did see the relevant D-I part for the > installer. Well I guess that if D-I in Debian does not support installing to iSCSI targets, then this is not consumable, but I think the patch is still applicable IMHO (just in case someone does do that enablement work - one less thing to understand that's broken in test).