Today I released the iSCSI Target Addon 1.4.18 for the Sparc based ReadyNAS series. There’s not only the dramatic change in the version number. In addition a lot of changes happened behind the scenes:
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Lars Ellenberg
- improve IETs procfs support to allow a larger number of targets
- compatibility fix for 2.6.28 (independently also provided by Francois Micaux)
- ignore SIGPIPE in ietd
- allow cleanup of stale targets in the kernel module
Andreas Florath
- support for a global worker threadpool instead of per target pools
(configurable via the worker_thread_pool_size module parameter)Arne Redlich
- compatibility fixes for 2.6.30, 2.6.29
- in cooperation with Xie Gang: Unit Attention support (thanks to Stefan Rubner for spotting a bug)
- in cooperation with Shreyansh Jain: support for splitting text messages into several PDUs, allowing more targets to be reported during discovery (thanks to Cheng Rengquan for bugfixes)
- clean up all connections, sessions and targets in the kernel module if the daemon is gone
- rework sense data handling, plugging memleaks
- fix valgrind warnings of uses of uninitialized variables
- support for Reject PDUs (thanks to FUJITA Tomonori for a bugfix)
- fix SERVICE ACTION IN: IET only supports READ CAPACITY 16, return sense data for all others
- allow READ CAPACITY even if a LU is RESERVEd
- iSNS: report the actual target port instead of the default iSCSI port
- fix list corruption if target thread creation fails
- fix stopping of threads that have never been awakened before
- fix CHAP account handling bugs
- fix netlink socket cleanup
- code cleanups
Cheng Renquan
- remove superfluous linefeed from debug messages
- enable runtime switching of debug levels for the kernel module and provide description for the module’s debug flags parameter
sdrb
- return proper status class in case of login failures
Ross S. W. Walker
- support more than one portal per target during discovery, and allow configuration of the presented portals using targets.allow – previously only the incoming interface was reported (thanks to David Shirley for reporting a bug)
- deprecate initiators.allow
- regex based filtering in initiators.allow and targets.allow
- move config files to /etc/iet
- add version and author info and description to kernel module
- fix debug log levels
- fix ietd.conf permissions
- move kernel module to /lib/modules/
/extra where it belongs - improve init scripts, using common names and functions across distributions
- improve usage comments in ietd.conf
- specfile to build RPMs, including weak module support
- DKMS support
Ming Zhang
- Use the LU’s sector size in the format mode page instead of defaulting to 512
The most noteable change is that now to access a target, the requesting initiator must be listed in the
/etc/initiators.allow
file. Thus, a copy with the global allow option “ALL ALL” set is distributed with the addon.
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Thanks, Stefan — works great. As usual.
Great work,
I dont have the time to try it but waiting for it to appear for the RNPP ;)
There’s no need to build a separate version for the RNPP as it’s already included.
-Stefan