Mounting swap device on iscsi target

[Eugene Grosbein]

17.01.2021 17:19, BERTRAND Joël wrote:

> 	I'm trying to mount iSCSI swap device during boot process. Of course, I
> have checked that configuration doesn't contains errors.
> 
> 	On running system, if I start /etc/rc.d/iscsictl start, device is
> mounted without error. But not during boot, I obtains :
> 
> Jan 17 10:48:17 pythagore iscsid[1009]: cannot open or create pidfile
> "/var/run/iscsid.pid": Operation not supported
> Jan 17 10:48:17 pythagore root[1010]: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start
> iscsid
> Jan 17 10:48:28 pythagore root[1014]: /etc/rc: WARNING: failed to start
> iscsictl
> Jan 17 10:49:20 pythagore kernel: WARNING: 192.168.10.128
> (iqn.2020-02.fr.systella.legendre.istgt:pythagore): timed out waiting
> for iscsid(8) for 61 seconds; reconnecting
> Jan 17 10:50:23 pythagore kernel: WARNING: 192.168.10.128
> (iqn.2020-02.fr.systella.legendre.istgt:pythagore): timed out waiting
> for iscsid(8) for 61 seconds; reconnecting
> 
> 	This workstation doesn't have any hard disk :
> 
> root at pythagore:/var/log # df -h
> Filesystem                       Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> 192.168.10.128:/srv/pythagore    523G    221G    276G    44%    /
> devfs                            1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> procfs                           4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /proc
> fdescfs                          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev/fd
> 192.168.10.128:/home             3.6T    2.4T    1.0T    71%    /home

For diskless system, you better create in-memory tmpfs for /var/run directory
or for /var as a whole. Refer to rc.conf(5) manual page for "varmfs" setting.