[illumos-Developer] Support for tuning iSCSI exported inquiry information

[Cyril Plisko]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Garrett D'Amore <garrett at nexenta.com> wrote:
>
> For various reasons, we have in our product a need to override the
> default vendor and serial number in the exported COMSTAR target.
> Currently we do this via a private patch to COMSTAR in our code base,
> that allows for these values to be overridden using driver.conf
> properties.

While I see the reason to provide the default Vendor ID (and may be
Product ID) in case nothing provided at LU creation time, the need
for default serial number is not that obvious. What purpose default
serial number would serve ?

>
> I'd like to possibly integrate this change into illumos -- it may prove
> useful to others, or it might not.  It will certainly make our lives
> easier since its easier to patch a .conf than to patch C code on
> subsequent merges.
>
> Are there any fundamental objections to having such functionality arrive
> in illumos?  (It does not change any "hot" code paths, notably.)
>
>        - Garrett
>
>
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Regards,
        Cyril