[Openstack] RFC: Removing iscsitarget from nova/cinder.

Mark McLoughlin markmc at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 06:00:30 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 21:36 -0400, Chuck Short wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if there is an aversion to remove ietadm support
> from folsom.
> 
> I have checked the iscsitarget sourceforge site and there
> hasn't been a new version of iscsitarget in about 2 years. The kernel
> module doesn't compile on recent versions of Ubuntu. Since tgt is our
> preferred iscsi target user-space tool as well. Looking at Fedora/Red
> Hat documentation, tgt seems to be the default. Im assuming it is the
> same for other distributions as well.
> 
> As well as the above, tgt seems to be the default for devstack and tgt
> is also the default iscsi target tool for folsom. 
> 
> Comments, questions, hate mail?

With my distro hat on, I'd be totally fine with it.

With my nova-core hat on, I'd be more cautious but if no-one speaks up
in its defence I think you've made a good case for its removal.

Cheers,
Mark.





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