Re: Add isboot iSCSI boot driver to FreeBSD

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude_at_freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2015-09-23 11:16, John Nielsen wrote:
> > On Sep 23, 2015, at 2:12 AM, Yonas Yanfa <yonas_at_fizk.net> wrote:
> >
> >> isboot is a iSCSI boot driver written by Daisuke Aoyama that allows you
> to boot your root partition using iSCSI.
> > [,,,]
> >> This was first announced way back in June, 2010:
> >>
> >> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-scsi/2010-June/004425.html
> >>
> >> I've tested the current version (v0.2.10) and it works with FreeBSD
> 10.2 booting a ZFS on root installation:
> >>
> >> http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.10.tar.gz
> >>
>




Yes , each file in the tar ball has BSD license at their beginning one by
one .






> >> I've used iSCSI boot with Ubuntu Server for a while and it's been very
> useful. I'm looking forward to FreeBSD having the same capability built-in.
> >
> > +1. I have used this module in the past and it is extremely useful.
> Thanks for the pointer, I wasn’t aware it had been updated for FreeBSD 10.x
> so recently. I’ve also wondered why this is not part of FreeBSD by default.
> >
> > Aoyama-san, do you have any objection to this code being included in
> FreeBSD? If not, can you formally assign it a BSD or other friendly
> license? Thank you again for the work!
> >
>
> It appears to already have a standard BSD2 license on it.
>
> > Trasz (or anyone), is there other work to support iSCSI booting and/or
> IBFT on FreeBSD? Anything else isboot might conflict with? Any problems
> with integrating the code or with the code itself?
> >
> > In the mean time, I’m going to work on adding an isboot port to the tree
> to further ease installation and increase exposure.
> >
> > JN
> >
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> Allan Jude
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