iSCSI disconnects dilema

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:06:46AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> Hi,
> While I think I have almost solved the problem of network disconnects,
> It downed on me a major problem:
> When a 'local' disk crashes, the kernel will probably hang/panic/crash.
> if i don't try to recover, then there is no change in the above scenario.
> if i try to recover, then the client does not know that it should
> umount/fsck/mount.
> While all this seems familiar, removing  a floppy/disk-on-key while it's
> mounted, we could always say "you shouldn't have done that!", with
> a network connection, it can happen very often - rebooting the target, a
> network hickup, etc.
> 
> So, any ideas?

In my opinion it should be done this way:

You have a queue of I/O requests. You send the to the other end and wait
for confirmation. Until confirmation is received, you keep the requests
queued. If the other end dies, you try to reconnect (until some timeout
expires, the processes which send those requests will just wait), if you
reconnect successfully, you resend not-confirmed requests, if you won't
be able to reconnect, you just pass the errors up.

This is what I did in ggate and it seems to work.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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