On 0924T0049, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 11:25:20PM +0200, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote: > > > On 0923T0916, 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 > > > > > > > > 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! > > > > > > 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? > > > > The basic problem with isboot is that it only works with the old iSCSI > > initiator, which is now marked obsolete. AFAIK there is no ready solution > > We have more then one iSCSI initiator? Other then iscsi_initiator(4)? Sure we do, since 10.0-RELEASE: iscsi(4). "man iscsi_initiator" mentions this.Received on Wed Sep 23 2015 - 20:02:03 UTC
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