[stgt] Startup race condition?

[Dax Kelson]

Hi,

I'm writing documentation and lab exercises on stgt for our Guru Labs
Linux training courses. We try to document and show best practices in
our courseware.

I was looking at the initd.sample file and I see this code:

        # Start tgtd first.
        tgtd &>/dev/null
        RETVAL=$?
        if [ "$RETVAL" -ne 0 ] ; then
            echo "Could not start tgtd (is tgtd already running?)"
            exit 1
        fi
        # Put tgtd into "offline" state until all the targets are configured.
        # We don't want initiators to (re)connect and fail the connection
        # if it's not ready.
        tgtadm --op update --mode sys --name State -v offline

Is there a race condition between the initial starting of tgtd telling
it to go into the offline state?

If so, how about adding a --start-offline or equivalent to the tgtd
binary?

Thanks,
Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

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