From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: si-wei liu Subject: Re: [RFC dracut 1/1] unexpected boot failure due to races between iscsistart for multiple interfaces Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 22:20:40 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1512418484-3948-1-git-send-email-cathy.zhou@oracle.com> <9326cbf7-b533-4cf2-baac-6699ee5dc4d6@googlegroups.com> <213a0c37-587e-7375-341b-680faa752cde@oracle.com> <29030bdf-e65a-dc01-ee1e-48498dafdc8f@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=oracle.com; h=subject : to : cc : references : from : message-id : date : mime-version : in-reply-to : content-type : content-transfer-encoding; s=corp-2017-10-26; bh=T9mxPh1Am6C+KBuLhT9vmeCkl6qj6woobLaj4BubFrk=; b=J2AB8vi8T+zxqsUgHDkgmnQPuAGYIT7mmMl59BMTO42jaeD+Id/6BifMP9Y5v8aZ0HLO lXAZyg6AXexr5rywoyP7+M+vemIQp33S9GJo54wiynmsHjaak1GA88P6KCO5zs5zQlnI T7g7BNb3NXPfg2Q/kbj8T/dcfyC5S4pjxLbW/OPCeytQy0QKHfd7qX9BqWRqFGwb5DZd kdR0ZaW/4aSI2cnGyu2c87t6is4hPdcbY9pTmpqhZ+zjTkeRV6C4bWkArZhVcwWQAAkl 1tLNDTuVv8MfsM94Dbmm22gsBvDXUJgMXukVdzqbPu7BuUkpcdQvBorzRi634eADEzv2 fA== In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format="flowed" To: Lee Duncan , Cathy Zhou Cc: open-iscsi , initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org On 12/21/2017 05:03 PM, Lee Duncan wrote: > That seems like the wrong approach to me. iscsiadm/iscsid were designed for this. The iscsistart script was designed for sing, one-shot use, and is not used in dracut now at all, AFAIK. The latter is not true, unfortunately. Distros like OpenSUSE and SLES does move to iscsiadm to manage sessions for their dracut fork,  however, the upstream dracut still uses iscsistart now. The context is that it might take a while for the SUSE patches to be upstream ready, hence we need an interim that addressed the particular iSCSI boot issue when dealing with multiple interfaces, until iscsiadm dracut patches become avail. Please see: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/msg04502.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/msg04505.html https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-initramfs/msg04506.html Thanks, -Siwei > > — > Lee Duncan >