From: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
To: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Cc: lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>,
linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC ATTEND] kernel booting using remote storage is a mess
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:02:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110140249.GC3721@linux-x5ow.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ee864cdd-11c3-63d6-51b7-b23b984fdbc6@suse.com>
On Tue, Jan 03, 2017 at 03:44:48PM -0800, Lee Duncan wrote:
> The process of booting a Linux kernel with remote storage (such as iSCSI
> or FCoE) seems unnecessarily complicated if end users can even figure
> out how to do it. This is of course exacerbated by the fact that every
> company seems to CNA cards differently despite the iBFT standard.
>
> If you add DM-Multipath on top of that, most bets are off on your
> chances of getting it to reliably work.
>
> I'd like to discuss how we can get this to work in a general way given
> the world of systemd that we live in now.
As this applies to FCoE as well as iSCSI I'd be very interested in this
session as well.
Byte,
Johannes
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2017-01-03 23:44 [LSF/MM TOPIC ATTEND] kernel booting using remote storage is a mess Lee Duncan
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