[CentOS] iscsi-initiator-utils required in 5.6, loads uneeded modules

Sun Apr 10 14:18:08 UTC 2011
Luigi Rosa <lists at luigirosa.com>

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Stephen Harris said the following on 10/04/11 15:48:

> And I can't remove it
>   % rpm -e iscsi-initiator-utils
>   error: Failed dependencies:
>           iscsi-initiator-utils is needed by (installed) mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-68.el5.i386

I saw that during the upgrade.

My guess is that probably the new mkinitrd supports boot from iscsi target.

But I don't know why iscsi and iscsid are enabled by default. Is it safe to turn
them off if I don't have iSCSI?


Ciao,
luigi

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