[stgt] [PATCH RFC] support multiple target instances

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:07:23 +1000
ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:09 AM, FUJITA Tomonori
> <fujita.tomonori at lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:07:24 +0300
> > Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at Voltaire.com> wrote:
> >
> >> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> >> > I know that but it doesn't sound good to me. How can you handle isns_port?
> >> > tgtd --port=3260 --iscsi=isns-port=1000
> >> > tgtd --iscsi=iscsi-port=3260,isns-port=1000
> >> > The latter looks more consistent to me.
> >>
> >> I am fine with both approaches
> >
> > Everyone, other opinions?
> >
> 
> I think it would make more sense to separate the port specified for
> the mgmt channel from the iscsi related ports.
> since it may be desireable to also run multiple instances of tgtd for
> fcoe as well and then --iscsi-port would not make sense.

Yeah, agreed. I don't fancy '--port' much though. It's a bit too
generic. I prefer something like '--mport' (or '--manage-port').


> So I think it would be better with
> --port=1234  --iscsi=iscsi-port=3260,isns-port=1000
> 
> Or even better :
> --port=1234  --iscsi-portal=10.0.0.1 --iscsi-port=3260 --isns-port=1000

Implementing the latter is tricky because we want to pass iscsi
parameters to only iscsi code instead of having the global option
parser as Linux kernel does.


> Where --port only refers to the mgmt socket, which is unique for each
> instance of tgtd.
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