iSCSI Target for ReadyNAS 1.4.18 released

Latest stable release adds a bunch of new features
Added by Who Cares 10 months ago

From the Changelog:

Lars Ellenberg
  o improve IETs procfs support to allow a larger number of targets
  o compatibility fix for 2.6.28 (independently also provided by Francois
    Micaux)
  o ignore SIGPIPE in ietd
  o allow cleanup of stale targets in the kernel module

Andreas Florath
  o support for a global worker threadpool instead of per target pools
    (configurable via the worker_thread_pool_size module parameter)

Arne Redlich
  o compatibility fixes for 2.6.30, 2.6.29
  o in cooperation with Xie Gang: Unit Attention support (thanks to Stefan
    Rubner for spotting a bug)
  o in cooperation with Shreyansh Jain: support for splitting text messages into
    several PDUs, allowing more targets to be reported during discovery
    (thanks to Cheng Rengquan for bugfixes)
  o clean up all connections, sessions and targets in the kernel module if the
    daemon is gone
  o rework sense data handling, plugging memleaks
  o fix valgrind warnings of uses of uninitialized variables
  o support for Reject PDUs (thanks to FUJITA Tomonori for a bugfix)
  o fix SERVICE ACTION IN: IET only supports READ CAPACITY 16, return sense data
    for all others
  o allow READ CAPACITY even if a LU is RESERVEd
  o iSNS: report the actual target port instead of the default iSCSI port
  o fix list corruption if target thread creation fails
  o fix stopping of threads that have never been awakened before
  o fix CHAP account handling bugs
  o fix netlink socket cleanup
  o code cleanups

Cheng Renquan
  o remove superfluous linefeed from debug messages
  o enable runtime switching of debug levels for the kernel module and
    provide description for the module's debug flags parameter

sdrb
  o return proper status class in case of login failures

Ross S. W. Walker
  o support more than one portal per target during discovery, and allow
    configuration of the presented portals using targets.allow - previously only
    the incoming interface was reported (thanks to David Shirley for
    reporting a bug)
  o deprecate initiators.allow
  o regex based filtering in initiators.allow and targets.allow
  o move config files to /etc/iet
  o add version and author info and description to kernel module
  o fix debug log levels
  o fix ietd.conf permissions
  o move kernel module to /lib/modules/<kver>/extra where it belongs
  o improve init scripts, using common names and functions across distributions
  o improve usage comments in ietd.conf
  o specfile to build RPMs, including weak module support
  o DKMS support

Ming Zhang
  o Use the LU's sector size in the format mode page instead of defaulting to 512

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