Differences between iscsi and gscsi

Roman Rakus rrakus at redhat.com
Fri Feb 5 23:57:10 EST 2010


On 02/05/2010 12:57 PM, Roman Rakus wrote:
> On 02/03/2010 08:27 AM, Roman Rakus wrote:
>> On 02/03/2010 01:06 AM, Tony Breeds wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:30:58PM +0100, Roman Rakus wrote:
>>>
>>>> Or maybe we can add TOK_GSCSI and corresponding tests.
>>> That seesm like a better approach to me.
>>>
>>> I have to admit that I don't know what gscsi is.  The only reference 
>>> I can
>>> really find is in the linux IPR driver.  and that's to "Generic Scsi"
>>>
>>> Yours Tony
>> Well, my apologize, now I have noticed that in the defdevice string: 
>> /vdevice/gscsi:dev=bootpath,iscsi,rawio,itname=iqn.2008-05.com.elm3c241:01,ciaddr=9.47.69.241,giaddr=9.47.69.1,subnet-mask=255.255.255.0,siaddr=9.47.69.22,iport=3260,iname=iqn.1992-08.com.netapp:sn.84183797,ilun=0,0/disk at 0 
>>
>> is `iscsi' substring. So the problem is elsewhere. I will try to 
>> figure out why yaboot removes ending `:sn.84183797,ilun=0,0/disk at 0' 
>> (I guess it causes problems).
>>
>> RR
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> Looks like the problem is in the prom_get_devtype() function. We find 
> there ISCSI token and then we check what type of device is 
> "/vdevice/gscsi/disk". From my fast check on one of the systems, 
> "/vdevice/gscsi/disk" is block device type, but prom_get_devtype() 
> function should returns iscsi device type. Or at least network device 
> type.
> I'm not sure whether "/vdevice/gscsi/disk" is always block device. Can 
> anyone confirm, disconfirm or clarify it?
> Following patch assumes "/vdevice/gscsi/disk" is always block device 
> and whether checking device path contains ISCSI token returns ISCSI 
> device type.
> I have not done any tests. Can anyone test is please?
> RR
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Previous patch has a typo. Use this new one.
RR
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