On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:09:15 +0100 Matteo Tescione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5-02-2008 14:38, "FUJITA Tomonori" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:01 +0100 > > Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> James Bottomley schrieb: > >> > >>> These are both features being independently worked on, are they not? > >>> Even if they weren't, the combination of the size of SCST in kernel plus > >>> the problem of having to find a migration path for the current STGT > >>> users still looks to me to involve the greater amount of work. > >> > >> I don't want to be mean, but does anyone actually use STGT in > >> production? Seriously? > >> > >> In the latest development version of STGT, it's only possible to stop > >> the tgtd target daemon using KILL / 9 signal - which also means all > >> iSCSI initiator connections are corrupted when tgtd target daemon is > >> started again (kernel upgrade, target daemon upgrade, server reboot etc.). > > > > I don't know what "iSCSI initiator connections are corrupted" > > mean. But if you reboot a server, how can an iSCSI target > > implementation keep iSCSI tcp connections? > > > > > >> Imagine you have to reboot all your NFS clients when you reboot your NFS > >> server. Not only that - your data is probably corrupted, or at least the > >> filesystem deserves checking... > > Don't know if matters, but in my setup (iscsi on top of drbd+heartbeat) > rebooting the primary server doesn't affect my iscsi traffic, SCST correctly > manages stop/crash, by sending unit attention to clients on reconnect. > Drbd+heartbeat correctly manages those things too. > Still from an end-user POV, i was able to reboot/survive a crash only with > SCST, IETD still has reconnect problems and STGT are even worst. Please tell us on stgt-devel mailing list if you see problems. We will try to fix them. Thanks, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
