[stgt] [PATCH 1/2] tgt-admin: check if direct-device exists before allocating it

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

ronnie sahlberg schrieb:
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
>> I will if it's not fixed when I send a bigger patch.
>>
>> To not duplicate work, the changes I'm working on currently are:
>>
>> - allow setting write caching per lun,
>> - allow setting scsi_id, scsi_sn, product_id etc. other parameters, per lun
>> - useful if one uses multipathd, but not only
>>
>> Any users of these features out there?
>>
> 
> Excellent. I will use these features!
> 
> I would also like to be able specify the LUN for each backingstore,
> not just that they always start at 1 and increment one by one.

Yeah, I was thinking about this too.

It will be needed if we want to have a predictable lun numbering when:
- more than one lun/backing-store is used
- they have different parameters set

However, this feature will be added later.


> I would like to specify the device type to use for each backingstore.
> It currently assumes everything is a disk device.

What --params= is needed here?


> later I would also like to be able to configure for individual LUNs
> things like :
>     Only these initiators can see/access this particular LUN.

Is it at all possible? To allow initiators access to specified LUNs 
only? In tgtd, iSCSI RFCs etc.?


>     These particular initiators can see/access this LUN   but the LUN
> is read-only for them.

As above - is it possible?


> When you design the algorithms for setting the serial numbers
> automatically,    leave some reserved space in the field for
> snapshots.
> If in the future STGT gets the ability to snapshot a lun or a set of
> luns, the snapshots should have different serial numbers than the
> original production lun.

Snapshots? Sounds like job for LVM?
I'm not sure if we should go that far.


> Maybe leaving the last 2 digits/characters in the serial number as 00
> for all LUNs, later if snapshots are added they automatically get 01
> 02 03...


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