[Xen-devel] [PATCH] v1 - Add exclusive locking option to block-iscsi

[Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx>]

Overview

If you're using iSCSI, you can mount a target by multiple Dom0 machines 
on the same target. For non-cluster aware filesystems, this can lead to 
disk corruption and general bad times by all. The iSCSI protocol allows 
the use of persistent reservations as per the SCSI disk spec. Low level 
SCSI commands for locking are handled by the sg_persist program (bundled 
with sg3_utils package in EL).
The aim of this patch is to create a 'locktarget=y' option specified 
within the disk 'target' command for iSCSI to lock the target in 
exclusive mode on VM start with a key generated from the local systems 
IP, and release this lock on the shutdown of the DomU.
Example Config:
disk            = 
['script=block-iscsi,vdev=xvda,target=iqn=iqn.1986-03.com.sun:02:mytarget,portal=iscsi.example.com,locktarget=y']
In writing this, I have also re-factored parts of the script to put some 
things in what I believe to be a better place to make expansion easier. 
This is mainly in removing functions that purely call other functions 
with no actual code execution.
Signed-off-by: Steven Haigh <netwiz@xxxxxxxxx>

(on a side note, first time I've submitted a patch to the list and I'm 
currently stuck on a webmail client, so apologies in advance if this all 
goes wrong ;)
--
Steven Haigh

Email: netwiz@xxxxxxxxx
Web: https://www.crc.id.au
Phone: (03) 9001 6090 - 0412 935 897

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