[pve-devel] Integration of FreeNAS iSCSI target initiator in Proxmox Enterprise repo

[Andreas Steinel]

Hello,

On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 11:23 AM bsd at todoo.biz <bsd at todoo.biz> wrote:

> I was wondering if there are any plans to integrate the Proxmox FreeNAS
> iSCSI initiator patches developped by the TheGrandWazoo and available in
> github repository here : https://github.com/TheGrandWazoo/freenas-proxmox
> into the main FreeNAS Enterprise repo.
>

The general workflow is that people present patches in the way the Proxmox
staff want it, as outlined in the development guidelines in [1].
You cannot legally just pull in stuff from other people, therefore the
development guideline exist and you have to follow their protocol.

If I remember correctly, the problem with the ZFS-over-iSCSI stuff is that
the backend provider in FreeNAS/FreeBSD has changed numerous times and at
least one version did not support online reconfiguration. That may be
solved right now, but I haven't look at the plugin for a long time. It just
works for Debian as Mario (@fireon) described in [2].

Hopefully, we'll see the storage plugin framework happening in the future,
so that only additive changes are required in order to support new plugins.
This would hugely improve third-party-support and solve the problem of
integrating yet another Storage-Plugin.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Developer_Documentation
[2]
https://deepdoc.at/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=virtualisierung:proxmox_kvm_und_lxc:proxmox_debian_als_zfs-over-iscsi_server_verwenden

-- 
With kind regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Andreas Steinel
M.Sc. Visual Computing
M.Sc. Informatik