Re: btrfs not iSCSI-target safe?

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On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:28:52 +0200
Tomasz Torcz <tomek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:40:31AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:27:06PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> > > 
> > >   Hi,
> > > 
> > > I tried to export file from btrfs volume using iSCSI target.
> > > As soon as some initiator have read it over network, server
> > > oopsed: http://www.kerneloops.org/submitresult.php?number=557979
> > >  Kernel is Fedora's 2.6.29.6-213.fc11.x86_64. I'm aware that
> > > target iSCSI functionality is out-of-tree (I'm using iscsitarget-0.4.17-3),
> > > so it may not be safe. But is there any known incompatibility
> > > between iscsi-target and btrfs?
> > 
> > Sorry, I don't know of any problems between btrfs and iscsi.  Is the
> > iscsi target configured to use linux aio?  That could be the problem.
> 
>   I'm not sure, I'm a mere user. This target software seems to read
> files from kernelspace, which as I understand is frowned upon.
>   If you are interested, sourcecode is at http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
> Ooops occured in fileio_make_request(), in iscsitarget-0.4.17/kernel/file-io.c
> file.

iscsitarget is a kernel-space implementation. I guess that it plays
with the vfs in a wrong way. It's better to ask it on iscsitarget
mailing list.

tgt (Tomasz Chmielewski recommended) is a user-space
implementation. It should work with btrfs.
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