[Stgt-devel] [Iscsitarget-devel] subtle differences between IET and tgtd behaviour (from initiator's perspective)

[FUJITA Tomonori]

From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org>
Subject: [Iscsitarget-devel] subtle differences between IET and tgtd behaviour (from initiator's perspective)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:24:35 +0200

> I noticed there are some subtle differences between IET and tgtd - from 
> the initiator's perspective.
> 
> I tried using both targets - IET and tgtd - everything works fine, 
> stable etc.
> 
> 
> I have a diskless workstation started entirely via iSCSI. It starts and 
> works fine both with IET and tgtd.
> The problem is when I want to shut down the machine.
> 
> 
> When the initiator uses IET, it shut downs properly.
> 
> With the initiator uses tgtd, it stalls somewhere at:
> 
> Umounting proc filesystem                 [ OK ]
> Halting system...
> md: stopping all md devices.
> Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sda:
> 
> 
> And it just waits there forever (that's with no changes on the 
> initiator; only the target program was changed).

Can you send IET and tgt tcpdump logs (tcpdump -s 1600 -w hoge.log)
when you shut down the initiator box?