Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:01:58 +0200 From: Edward Tomasz =?utf-8?Q?Napiera=C5=82a?= <trasz@FreeBSD.org> To: Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru> Cc: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>, freebsd-current Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, aoyama@peach.ne.jp, Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net> Subject: Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20150923220158.GA7647@brick> In-Reply-To: <20150923214903.GY3158@zxy.spb.ru> References: <56025EEE.50404@fizk.net> <5B296016-F14D-48A9-8DC6-0D8EA28AE891@jnielsen.net> <20150923212520.GA7390@brick> <20150923214903.GY3158@zxy.spb.ru>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 0924T0049, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote: > > > On 0923T0916, John Nielsen wrote: > > > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa <yonas@fizk.net> wrote: > > > > > > > isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you to boot your root partition using iSCSI. > > > [,,,] > > > > This was first announced way back in June, 2010: > > > > > > > > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html > > > > > > > > I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD 10.2 booting a ZFS on root installation: > > > > > > > > http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz > > > > > > > > I've used iSCSI boot with Ubuntu Server for a while and it's been very useful. I'm looking forward to FreeBSD having the same capability built-in. > > > > > > +1. I have used this module in the past and it is extremely useful. Thanks for the pointer, I wasn't aware it had been updated for FreeBSD 10.x so recently. I've also wondered why this is not part of FreeBSD by default. > > > > > > Aoyama-san, do you have any objection to this code being included in FreeBSD? If not, can you formally assign it a BSD or other friendly license? Thank you again for the work! > > > > > > Trasz (or anyone), is there other work to support iSCSI booting and/or IBFT on FreeBSD? Anything else isboot might conflict with? Any problems with integrating the code or with the code itself? > > > > The basic problem with isboot is that it only works with the old iSCSI > > initiator, which is now marked obsolete. AFAIK there is no ready solution > > We have more then one iSCSI initiator? Other then iscsi_initiator(4)? Sure we do, since 10.0-RELEASE: iscsi(4). "man iscsi_initiator" mentions this.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20150923220158.GA7647>