iSCSI and AOE drives + HAL

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 03:48 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I was playing lately with iSCSI and AOE drives, and I was wondering about
>their integration in HAL.
>Are we supposed to have these devices in HAL ?

I'm not sure, but I think they will land in hal no matter whether we
want them or not, because, AFAIK, it's really difficult to make a
distinction between real SCSI and iSCSI devices. 

Btw, for Fedora Core 3 the default policy is to ignore SCSI devices
unless they are optical drives.

>We are not supposed to run any discovery tool, because the discovery is
>done with other tools (for AOE, the discovery is done in the driver
>itself), and only the valid drives appear in /sys/block.

Right.

David

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