On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, C Linus Hicks <linush at verizon.net> wrote: > I am trying to install Oracle RAC in a two node cluster for testing > purposes, so performance is not something that concerns me. I just want > to go through the process all the way to creating a database. I have all > the prerequisites except the shared storage and thought I'd give this a > try. > > I'm running: > - CentOS 5.3 kernel 2.6.18-164.el5 > - iscsitarget-1.4.18-1 > - iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.18.el5_3.1 > > I can discover and login to the node using iscsiadm on the server that > is not also running iet, and see the new scsi disk. > > When I try to login using iscsiadm on the server that is running the > ietd daemon, I see packets going over the lo interface in both > directions, but I get error 8 - connection timed out. Wireshark is > reporting TCP Previous segment lost errors with large sequence numbers > like 2999833 and 8999718. > > Has anybody tried this, and can anybody offer any help? You can only do that if you use blockio for your targets, otherwise fileio will cause a deadlock on the page cache between the target's usage of it and the initiator's usage of it. -Ross