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@@ -13,16 +13,20 @@ command in a shell:
svn co https://scst.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scst/trunk scst
While iSCSI-SCST works fine with an unpatched Linux kernel with the same
or better speed as other open source iSCSI targets, including IET, if
you want even better performance you have to patch and rebuild the
kernel. Select the patch according to your kernel version (2.6.38.x in
the example below):
While SCST and iSCSI-SCST work fine with an unpatched Linux kernel with
the same or better speed as other open source iSCSI targets, if you want
even better performance you need to patch and rebuild the kernel. Select
the patch according to your kernel version (2.6.38.x in the example
below):
cd /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.38.8
patch -p1 < $HOME/scst/iscsi-scst/kernel/patches/put_page_callback-2.6.38.patch
make clean
If you can't find put_page_callback for your kernel, then the patching
is not needed for it, so you can skip this and next (kernel rebuild and
reboot) steps.
Next, build and install the kernel:
make && make modules
@@ -39,14 +43,17 @@ Once the system is again up and running the next step is to build and install
SCST, iSCSI-SCST and scstadmin. With most distros (including RHEL 6) you can
do that by running the following command from the SCST directory:
make 2release
make scst scst_install iscsi iscsi_install scstadm scstadm_install
When using RHEL 5 or CentOS 5, use these commands instead:
make 2release
make enable_proc
make scst scst_install iscsi iscsi_install scstadm scstadm_install
iSCSI-SCST includes the following components:
* kernel modules: iscsi-scst.ko scst.ko scst_vdisk.ko
* iscsi-scstd - daemon
* man pages
* Obsolete configuration files located under iscsi-scst/etc/obsolete, need to be copied to
@@ -105,8 +112,16 @@ Then run the following command:
/etc/init.d/scst start
You should have the working iSCSI-SCST now. Do the following steps if
you need to automatically configure it upon reboot.
You should have the working iSCSI-SCST now. If at any later time you
need to change scst.conf and reload it, you can run scstadmin directly:
scstadmin -config /etc/scst.conf
or restart SCST:
/etc/init.d/scst restart
Do the following steps if you need to automatically configure SCST upon reboot.
4. Create soft links in /etc/init.d
@@ -131,6 +146,10 @@ the following commands:
Installing and using iSCSI-SCST without using scstadmin via /sys interface
==========================================================================
This is advanced section you should not need for basic services.
Scstadmin should be fully sufficient for you. Use those steps only if you
need to do something too advanced for scstadmin.
First repeat steps 1 and 2 from the first section but leave out
"scstadm scstadm_install" from the make command in step 1.