[Stgt-devel] Some general questions about tgt

[FUJITA Tomonori]

From: Erez Zilber <erezz at voltaire.com>
Subject: [Stgt-devel] Some general questions about tgt
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 11:55:04 +0200

> I'm still a newbie here, so I have many questions:
> 
>    1. For each iSCSI target that you create with tgtadm, you can define
>       the initiators that can access it. Why does it use IP addresses
>       instead of iqn.initiator_name?

It's a bit harder to forge IP addresses than iSCSI names, I guess. I
have two comercial iSCSI target systems and both support access
control based on IP addresses.


>    2. tgtadm allows you to create 2 targets with the same name. Is
> it a bug?

Well, it would be better to add the code to prevent this mistake.


>    3. If the same lun is connected with 2 FC cables, you'll see that
>       device twice. Is there any mechanism for preferred path? If not,
>       is there any plan to do that in the near future?

Sorry, I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about multi-path?