[CentOS] What iSCSI is used in Centos 5 and RHEL6?

Sat Mar 12 19:33:02 UTC 2011
Emmanuel Noobadmin <centos.admin at gmail.com>

Thanks for the confirmation and the note about LIO

On 3/13/11, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 02:41:07AM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
>> I was looking up on iSCSI in preparation and became aware that there
>> are different iSCSI software/drivers/whatever-is-the-correct-term
>> available. e.g.
>>
>> IET http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> SCST http://scst.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> STGT http://stgt.berlios.de/
>>
>> LIO http://linux-iscsi.org/
>>
>> Based on what I can see, it seems to be STGT because the site provides
>> a link to Redhat advisory which seems to imply that it's what's being
>> used in RHEL.
>>
>> Does anybody know for sure?
>
> STGT is used in both RHEL5:
>
> $ rpm -qi scsi-target-utils
> Name        : scsi-target-utils            Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 0.0                               Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 5.20080917snap.el5            Build Date: Fri 19 Sep 2008
> 10:33:12 AM PDT
> Install Date: Wed 28 Jan 2009 08:14:48 AM PST      Build Host:
> hs20-bc1-5.build.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM:
> scsi-target-utils-0.0-5.20080917snap.el5.src.rpm
> Size        : 274831                           License: GPLv2
> Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Mon 15 Dec 2008 03:01:02 PM PST, Key ID
> 5326810137017186
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://stgt.berlios.de
> Summary     : The SCSI target daemon and utility programs
> Description :
> The SCSI target package contains the daemon and tools to setup a SCSI
> targets.
> Currently, software iSCSI targets are supported.
>
> and RHEL6:
>
> # rpm -qi scsi-target-utils
> Name        : scsi-target-utils            Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 1.0.4                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 3.el6_0.1                     Build Date: Tue 18 Jan 2011
> 02:30:36 PM PST
> Install Date: Sat 12 Mar 2011 10:42:14 AM PST      Build Host:
> x86-004.build.bos.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Daemons    Source RPM:
> scsi-target-utils-1.0.4-3.el6_0.1.src.rpm
> Size        : 377828                           License: GPLv2
> Signature   : RSA/8, Mon 24 Jan 2011 10:55:21 PM PST, Key ID
> 199e2f91fd431d51
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://stgt.sourceforge.net/
> Summary     : The SCSI target daemon and utility programs
> Description :
> The SCSI target package contains the daemon and tools to setup a SCSI
> targets.
> Currently, software iSCSI targets are supported.
>
> I think LIO has been "blessed" as the next official version by the
> kernel folks[1].
>
> Ray
>
> [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/424004/
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