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

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 11:50 +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote:
> 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 ?

In NexentaStor the exported serial number matches a license key and is
set and used by our management software.  Its highly vendor specific,
admittedly, but the risk to anything else is small.

	- Garrett

> 
> >
> > 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
> 
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