Index: share/man/man4/iscsi.4 =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ share/man/man4/iscsi.4 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2014 Edward Tomasz Napierala +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.Dd September 8, 2014 +.Dt ISCSI 4 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm iscsi +.Nd iSCSI initiator +.Sh SYNOPSIS +To compile this driver into the kernel, +place the following line in your +kernel configuration file: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "device iscsi" +.Ed +.Pp +Alternatively, to load the driver as a +module at boot time, place the following line in +.Xr loader.conf 5 : +.Bd -literal -offset indent +iscsi_load="YES" +.Ed +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Nm +subsystem provides the kernel component of an iSCSI initiator. +The initiator is the iSCSI client, which connecs to an iSCSI target, +providing local access to a remote block device. +The userland component is provided by +.Xr iscsid 8 +and both the kernel and userland are configured using +.Xr iscsictl 8 . +The +.Nm +subsystem is responsible for implementing the +.Qq Full Feature Phase +of the iSCSI protocol. +.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES +The following variables are available as both +.Xr sysctl 8 +variables and +.Xr loader 8 +tunables: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Va kern.iscsi.ping_timeout +Specify the number of seconds to wait for the target to respond to a NOP-Out +PDU. +In the event that there is no response within that time the session gets +forcibly restarted. +.It Va kern.iscsi.iscsid_timeout +Specify the number of seconds to wait for +.Xr ctld 8 +to establish a session. +After that time +.Nm +will abort and retry. +.It Va kern.iscsi.login_timeout +Specify the number of seconds to wait for a login attempt to succeed. +After that time +.Nm +will abort and retry. +.It Va kern.iscsi.maxtags +The maximum number of outstanding IO requests. +.It Va kern.iscsi.fail_on_disconnection +Controls the behaviour after an iSCSI connection gets dropped, due to +network problems. +When set to 1, a dropped connection will cause the iSCSI device nodes +to be destroyed. +After reconnecting, they will be created again. +By default the device nodes are left intact; while the connection +is down all input/output operations are suspended, to be retried +after the connection is reestablished. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr iscsi.conf 5 , +.Xr iscsictl 8 , +.Xr iscsid 8 +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Nm +subsystem appeared in +.Fx 10.0 . +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +was developed by +.An Edward Tomasz Napierala Aq Mt trasz@FreeBSD.org +under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation.