NAME
cfiscsi
—
CAM Target Layer iSCSI target
frontend
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device cfiscsi
device ctl
device iscsi
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
cfiscsi_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
Thecfiscsi
subsystem provides the kernel component of
an iSCSI target. The target is the iSCSI server, providing LUNs backed by
local files and volumes to remote initiators. The userspace component is
provided by ctld(8). cfiscsi
is implemented as a
ctl(4) frontend and uses infrastructure provided by
iscsi(4).
SYSCTL VARIABLES
The following variables are available as both sysctl(8) variables and loader(8) tunables:
- kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.debug
- Verbosity level for log messages from the kernel part of iSCSI target. Set to 0 to disable logging or 1 to warn about potential problems. Larger values enable debugging output. Defaults to 1.
- The number of outstanding commands to advertise to each iSCSI initiator. Current implementation is not very accurate, so do not set this below 2. Defaults to 256.
- kern.cam.ctl.iscsi.ping_timeout
- The number of seconds to wait for the iSCSI initiator to respond to a NOP-In PDU. In the event that there is no response within that time the session gets forcibly terminated. Set to 0 to disable sending NOP-In PDUs. Defaults to 5.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
The cfiscsi
subsystem first appeared in
FreeBSD 10.0 as part of the
ctl(4) driver. It was split off of
ctl(4) in FreeBSD 12.0.
AUTHORS
The cfiscsi
subsystem was developed by
Edward Tomasz Napierala
<trasz@FreeBSD.org>
under sponsorship from the FreeBSD Foundation. This manual page was written
by Ngie Cooper
<ngie@FreeBSD.org>.