Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC ATTEND] kernel booting using remote storage is a mess

[Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>]

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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