Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] iscsi: add -drive ..., iscsi=<iscsi-id> parameter

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:14:10AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 05:23:09PM -0400, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Add a parameter to associate an iSCSI block driver instance with an -iscsi
> > object.  This is more powerful than relying on the implicit target IQN 
> > naming
> > convention since that only allows one -iscsi object per target.
> 
> I'm inclined to say we should *not* do this, as it just serves to perpetuate
> usage of the insane -iscsi arg. Instead we could focus on fixing the iSCSI
> blockdev for 2.8 so that it directly supports properties for everything that
> you can set via -iscsi and deprecate -iscsi entirely. We've got enough time
> during 2.8 to get this entirely converted I think.

That's fine.  There's not much advantage to defining -iscsi objects
except that a single -iscsi can be used by multiple iscsi drives.

Stefan

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