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

Garrett D'Amore garrett at nexenta.com
Sat Jan 22 21:07:32 PST 2011


On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 20:33 -0800, Eric Schrock wrote:
> Can these be set today on a per-target basis?

In our patch code, yes.  Via driver.conf properties.  In the current
illumos code, there is not a mechanism to set them.

	- Garrett
> 
> 
> - Eric
> 
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, 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.
>         
>         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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> Eric Schrock, Delphix
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