Re: new comer questions on tgt,lio-utils and iscsitarget

Re: new comer questions on tgt,lio-utils and iscsitarget

[Andy Grover]

On 12/04/2014 01:13 PM, The Lee-Man wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 6:59:02 PM UTC-8, pilla...@gmail.com wrote:
>     1 \ both lio-utils and tgt are pure user space program? Both of them
>     are using the kernel iscsi module ? So ,what is the difference
>     between them?
>
> No, I believe the "tgt" (or stgt) package uses a user-space daemon, but
> it only handles administration of connections. The transport is handled
> by the kernel. See http://stgt.sourceforge.net

Actually the website is a little out of date. stgt moved to entirely 
userspace, around 2011.

-- Andy

Re: new comer questions on tgt,lio-utils and iscsitarget

[The Lee-Man]

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On Friday, December 5, 2014 11:42:12 AM UTC-8, Andy Grover wrote:
>
> On 12/04/2014 01:13 PM, The Lee-Man wrote: 
> > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 6:59:02 PM UTC-8, pilla...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org 
> wrote: 
> >     1 \ both lio-utils and tgt are pure user space program? Both of them 
> >     are using the kernel iscsi module ? So ,what is the difference 
> >     between them? 
> > 
> > No, I believe the "tgt" (or stgt) package uses a user-space daemon, but 
> > it only handles administration of connections. The transport is handled 
> > by the kernel. See http://stgt.sourceforge.net 
>
> Actually the website is a little out of date. stgt moved to entirely 
> userspace, around 2011. 
>
> -- Andy 
>
>
Interesting. The version on SUSE still uses tgtd. :-/

I suppose I could update it, but I spend most of my time on 
lio-utils/targetcli/targte-isns these days. 

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