Wouter Verhelst left as an exercise for the reader: > iSCSI works very differently and is way more complex, but I remember > from when I last played with it (which is a while ago, so the details > are hazy) that it's not possible to set up in a non-persistent manner > (i.e., all iSCSI connections survive reboot unless explicitly deleted, > although obviously partman-iscsi has to do some dark magic to ensure the > configuration is migrated from the d-i environment to the live system). i've actually worked pretty extensively with iSCSI--i presented on it at LPC2015 [0] =]. as far as i understand, iSCSI connections are initiated and managed by the iscsid userspace daemon (aside from root-on-iSCSI, which uses iscsistart, or at least did. UEFI/BIOS iSCSI can also server here). > There's also ATA-over-Ethernet, Fibrechannel-over-ethernet, multipath, > and a whole slew of other things, if you want to configure this from > growlight. as you note, most of this is not stuff i want to slap a UI on, but i'd certainly want to hit full partman feature parity...in time. if it's best early on, i feel no shame punting more esoteric setups to partman; as i've said, i would expect partman to remain present on the installation media for at least some significant time. > I could be wrong though, haven't looked at growlight in much detail, and > in the end it's your call, not mine :-D nope, pretty much totally correct. --nick [0] https://nick-black.com/dankwiki/images/e/ea/Public_LPC2015_-_Dynamic_iSCSI_at_Scale-_Remote_paging_at_Google.pdf -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.
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