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* More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev.
@ 2010-04-05 18:00 Mike Ely
  2010-04-05 18:15 ` Andrey Borzenkov
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mike Ely @ 2010-04-05 18:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-hotplug

(resending because our clunky old MTA doesn¹t know how to handle
greylisting)

I'm wondering how to get open-iscsi and udev folks to work together on a
good solution for getting ISCSI volumes to map consistently to a /dev/
entry. What would be a good starting point for getting the discussion going?
Currently the only solutions I can find are some scripting tricks, but it¹d
be nice to see something a bit more integrated.  Not all use cases support
filesystem labels.

Thanks,
Mike Ely


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* Re: More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev.
  2010-04-05 18:00 More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev Mike Ely
@ 2010-04-05 18:15 ` Andrey Borzenkov
  2010-04-05 18:28 ` Mike Ely
  2010-04-06  2:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Borzenkov @ 2010-04-05 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-hotplug

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On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:00:49 Mike Ely wrote:
> (resending because our clunky old MTA doesn¹t know how to handle
> greylisting)
> 
> I'm wondering how to get open-iscsi and udev folks to work together
> on a good solution for getting ISCSI volumes to map consistently to
> a /dev/ entry. What would be a good starting point for getting the
> discussion going? Currently the only solutions I can find are some
> scripting tricks, but it¹d be nice to see something a bit more
> integrated.  Not all use cases support filesystem labels.
> 

udev already includes path_id that generates persistent name for iSCSI 
device. Could you be more specific what exactly it misses?

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* Re: More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev.
  2010-04-05 18:00 More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev Mike Ely
  2010-04-05 18:15 ` Andrey Borzenkov
@ 2010-04-05 18:28 ` Mike Ely
  2010-04-06  2:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mike Ely @ 2010-04-05 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-hotplug

On 4/5/10 11:15 AM, "Andrey Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:

> On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:00:49 Mike Ely wrote:
>> (resending because our clunky old MTA doesn¹t know how to handle
>> greylisting)
>> 
>> I'm wondering how to get open-iscsi and udev folks to work together
>> on a good solution for getting ISCSI volumes to map consistently to
>> a /dev/ entry. What would be a good starting point for getting the
>> discussion going? Currently the only solutions I can find are some
>> scripting tricks, but it¹d be nice to see something a bit more
>> integrated.  Not all use cases support filesystem labels.
>> 
> 
> udev already includes path_id that generates persistent name for iSCSI
> device. Could you be more specific what exactly it misses?

I'm not sure how to get path_id to work then.  Here's an example of it not
working through several remounts on RHEL 5 - look at the number of
partitions in each volume to see how it's randomly remapping:

(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# iscsiadm -m node -T
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme
--login
Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Login to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

 202     0   20971520 xvda
 202     1     104391 xvda1
 202     2    1574370 xvda2
 202     3   12996585 xvda3
 202     4          1 xvda4
 202     5    4192933 xvda5
 202     6    2096451 xvda6
   8     0  104862720 sda
   8     1      56196 sda1
   8     2  104800027 sda2
   8    16    1059840 sdb
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# service iscsi restart
Logging out of session [sid: 4, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging out of session [sid: 5, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logout of [sid: 4, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Logout of [sid: 5, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Stopping iSCSI daemon:
iscsid dead but pid file exists                            [  OK  ]
Turning off network shutdown. Starting iSCSI daemon:       [  OK  ]
                                                           [  OK  ]
Setting up iSCSI targets: Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Login to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Login to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
                                                           [  OK  ]
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

 202     0   20971520 xvda
 202     1     104391 xvda1
 202     2    1574370 xvda2
 202     3   12996585 xvda3
 202     4          1 xvda4
 202     5    4192933 xvda5
 202     6    2096451 xvda6
   8    16  104862720 sdb
   8    17      56196 sdb1
   8    18  104800027 sdb2
   8     0    1059840 sda
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# service iscsi restart
Logging out of session [sid: 1, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging out of session [sid: 2, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logout of [sid: 1, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Logout of [sid: 2, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Stopping iSCSI daemon:
iscsid dead but pid file exists                            [  OK  ]
Turning off network shutdown. Starting iSCSI daemon:       [  OK  ]
                                                           [  OK  ]
Setting up iSCSI targets: Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Login to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Login to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
                                                           [  OK  ]
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

 202     0   20971520 xvda
 202     1     104391 xvda1
 202     2    1574370 xvda2
 202     3   12996585 xvda3
 202     4          1 xvda4
 202     5    4192933 xvda5
 202     6    2096451 xvda6
   8     0  104862720 sda
   8     1      56196 sda1
   8     2  104800027 sda2
   8    16    1059840 sdb
(root@OEL64R5U2)(~)# service iscsi restart
Logging out of session [sid: 1, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging out of session [sid: 2, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logout of [sid: 1, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Logout of [sid: 2, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]: successful
Stopping iSCSI daemon:
iscsid dead but pid file exists                            [  OK  ]
Turning off network shutdown. Starting iSCSI daemon:       [  OK  ]
                                                           [  OK  ]
Setting up iSCSI targets: Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-79b89fb03-9ce0003e5bb4bb65-proddb1-db1,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]
Logging in to [iface: default, target:
iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-deleteme,
portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]


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* Re: More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev.
  2010-04-05 18:00 More consistent /dev/ mapping for ISCSI volumes in udev Mike Ely
  2010-04-05 18:15 ` Andrey Borzenkov
  2010-04-05 18:28 ` Mike Ely
@ 2010-04-06  2:41 ` Andrey Borzenkov
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Andrey Borzenkov @ 2010-04-06  2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-hotplug

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On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:28:14 Mike Ely wrote:
> On 4/5/10 11:15 AM, "Andrey Borzenkov" <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
> > On Monday 05 of April 2010 22:00:49 Mike Ely wrote:
> >> (resending because our clunky old MTA doesn¹t know how to handle
> >> greylisting)
> >> 
> >> I'm wondering how to get open-iscsi and udev folks to work
> >> together on a good solution for getting ISCSI volumes to map
> >> consistently to a /dev/ entry. What would be a good starting
> >> point for getting the discussion going? Currently the only
> >> solutions I can find are some scripting tricks, but it¹d be nice
> >> to see something a bit more integrated.  Not all use cases
> >> support filesystem labels.
> > 
> > udev already includes path_id that generates persistent name for
> > iSCSI device. Could you be more specific what exactly it misses?
> 
> I'm not sure how to get path_id to work then.  Here's an example of
> it not working through several remounts on RHEL 5 - look at the
> number of partitions in each volume to see how it's randomly
> remapping:
> 

path_id is used to generate persistent link under /dev/disk/by-path. sdX 
are not guaranteed to be persistent.


> iqn.2001-05.com.equallogic:0-8a0906-4f489fb03-3c60003e5c34bb68-delete
> me, portal: 10.1.xx.xx,3260]

I always find obfuscating of private addresses amusing :)

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