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Bug#679055: istgt: Add support to reload the istgt.conf file.



Hi Andrew,

On 26.06.2012 06:07, andrew@etc.gen.nz wrote:
> istgt currently has no method to load new Logical Units other than restarting
> the daemon. This is a bit cruel, in that it interrupts folks that have
> mounted LUNs from the running istgt.

Yes, I'm entirely with you here. That's a feature I've been waiting for
for a while already.

> The attached patch, ported from FreeBSD, adds a refresh command to
> istgtcontrol to allow telling istgt to reload istgt.conf and update
> the running configuration, all without restarting the daemon.

Did you contact the upstream author? As far as I'm informed he was
planning to add reload LUN reload support to the upcoming 0.5 series but
I didn't hear since.


Anyway, thanks for your patch which looks quite good at a first glance.
I'll review and test later so that it will end in Wheezy before the freeze.


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Arno Töll
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