Re: iSCSI: Canonical Targets

[Mark Bakke <mbakke@cisco.com>]

That kind of makes sense.  If we limit SendTargets to the discovery
session, and disallow SCSI commands to the discovery session, then
we really don't have a target at all from SCSI's point of view; but
we do have a "special" target from iSCSI's point of view since we
are doing the full login to it.

So if we used

  TargetName=

we would get the discovery target; if we used

  TargetName=iSCSI    # Note: this is case-insensitive

we would get whatever default target the iSCSI device wanted
our initiator to see.  Even if we do end up supporting both, I
guess I'd rather see a target name, rather than leaving it
blank.  How about

   TargetName=discovery

BTW, nobody else has spoken up for having this default target
that would avoid having to use SendTargets if there were not
multiple targets available to an initiator.

Who plans to make use of this?  I don't mind putting it in
(we had sort of implied the functionality before), but if
it is not in anyone's plans, I'd rather go for a simpler spec.

Stephen Bailey wrote:
> 
> > Any other ideas?
> 
> My suggestion was to not supply any target name for a discovery login
> (which is how a discovery login would be distinguished) and call
> `iSCSI' the `default' (operational) target.
> 
> Steph

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