[CentOS] iscsi target for C5.x

[John R Pierce]

Ross Walker wrote:
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 2:42 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a
>> iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ?   Various blogs suggest compiling IET
>> from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do  
>> it,
>> I just don't want to have to support it long term).   I looked in
>> rpmforge but didn't see anything.
>>     
>
> If you do compile it yourself start with the 1.4.18 release and use  
> the .spec that comes with it to rpmbuild either a kabi tracking module  
> or a dkms module so the maintenance is minimal.
>   

i haven't gotten desperate enough to try a  tarball build yet, rather, 
I've been trying to rpmbuild from various -supposed to work with 
rhel5/centos5- .src.rpm's...    rotten karma so far.

can't use ATRPM's prebuilt RPMs, they want vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 
and I have 2.6.18-164.el5 which afaik is the latest centos5.3+ kernel

I've tried variations on 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/iscsitarget/index.php?title=RedHat_install_advice 
using about every .src.rpm there and they all get various build errors, 
typically culminating in...

.../BUILD/iscsitarget-0.4.12/kernel/iscsi_dbg.h:39:5: warning: "D_IOV" 
is not defined
.../BUILD/iscsitarget-0.4.12/kernel/iscsi_dbg.h:51:5: warning: 
"D_DUMP_PDU" is not defined
.../BUILD/iscsitarget-0.4.12/kernel/event.c: In function 'event_init':
.../BUILD/iscsitarget-0.4.12/kernel/event.c:102: warning: passing 
argument 2 of 'netlink_kernel_create' makes integer from pointer without 
a cast
.../BUILD/iscsitarget-0.4.12/kernel/event.c:102: error: too few 
arguments to function 'netlink_kernel_create'

I've tried all three of these .src.rpm's from 
http://www.cryptoforge.net/iscsi/RPMS/ anyways...
    iscsitarget-0.4.12-6.src.rpm 
    iscsitarget-0.4.13-0.1264.2.src.rpm 
    iscsitarget-0.4.13-0.1266.1.src.rpm

afaik, I have all the required -devel packages installed.  this is a 
virgin install of 5.3 x86_64 w/ yum -y update as of now.....


OH WAIT.   now why didn' someone tell me about this earlier?
http://bitbud.com/2009/05/27/installing-the-iscsi-target-framework-tgt/

its a NATIVE FEATURE, not IET, rather, the new kernel iscsi is in 5.3

well, THAT was Easy!