Connect your Raspberry Pi to a NAS using iSCSI

Suhas Kashyap

2022-07-17 09:03:20

Hi, I already followed those instructions wrt initator name edits. My R pi hung and is not restarting. This happened just when I was filling up the '.sh' file. I am not sure if it was because of editing the isci/initiatorname. Anyone else encounter this?

Tom Legrady

2022-07-11 00:08:00

Love the background!

Nicola Dellino

2022-05-06 22:38:45

Very nice video, TNX.

WizardNumberNext

2022-03-28 21:24:24

Why greping using single pattern?
Why not grep 'scsi\|sd'
I use grep 'scsi\|sd\|ata' to show everything concerning drives
Not using basics of grep leads to nie being able to use sed and awk
I use sed on daily basis, usually to shorten my one-liners (which quickly becomes litany or rather prayer to not mess up)

Beauregard Slim

2022-03-17 15:40:27

iSCSI is great stuff for certain applications, but you need to be sure that the network connection is rock solid or you may end up with corruption. The underlying subsystems are intended for use with locally attached drives and are much less forgiving than network file protocols like SMB or NFS.

Robbie B.

2022-03-17 08:25:19

That’s cherry pie in the thumbnail…

Adrian Teri

2022-03-08 10:09:25

@Gary Explains a better way to mount after boot-up by using a youtube.com/results?search_query=%23systemd #systemd service that ensures the network is already up? Credit to @ Chris Titus Tech (CTT) for the idea.... Apologies for any inappropriate fields and/or errors ...

## example systemd file
[Unit]
Description=Mount iSCSI drives on boot-up
Wants=network-online.target/ network-online.target
After=network-online.target/ network-online.target

[Mount]
What=/dev/sda1
Where=/iscsimnt
Type=ext4
Options=defaults,rw,noatime

[Install]
WantedBy=mutli-user.target/ mutli-user.target

You may want to change the file permissions for the /iscsimnt as it's owned by only root...

Philip Thatcher

2022-03-06 09:33:25

Was anybody else shouting 'lsblk" at the screen?

Karen

2022-03-04 05:35:08

Q: can iscsi abuse cloud storage?

alok j.

2022-03-03 12:23:38

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Allwarappan Sundararaj

2022-03-03 03:48:51

I love this Gary.. thank you.

Dan Stocks

2022-03-02 22:41:56

Well explained. Easy when you know how.(I didn't before!)

Modzilla

2022-03-02 10:26:46

Hey there,
you did a small mistake: the initiatorname on the pi should not be changed! It's the name of the pi and not the targets name. The pi needs to have a unique iqn. I don't know DSM but if you have a look into the UI it should now show the client with the same iqn as the target. As stated before that might be problematic.

Other than that, great video, thank you very much! :)

or4n

2022-03-02 08:55:15

Shouldn't that InitiatorName be unique so you can distinguish between different initiators? Now what would happen if you had multiple initiators with same name?
Also don't think you can specify multiple InitiatorNames in case you have multiple targets.

Leigh Taylor

2022-03-02 00:13:20

Genius.

School for Hackers

2022-03-01 19:11:10

Excellent as always. Thanks -

Vinny Tube

2022-03-01 18:55:01

Actually Gary, you can put an fstab entry in there and then add "_netdev,x-systemd.requires=iscsi.service" to the mount options. At least assuming you are using Raspbian, as I am, and my system is using systemd. This is even better since the sleep either wastes time, or isn't long enough and then it won't work.

Otherwise great video. Only suggestion might be to give some suggestions how this could be useful. I can see some uses for sure, but a lot of people might be asking why do this over just using the Synology. But then again not everybody might run lots of Pi boards running different services and wanting to co-locate the data onto a single NAS/SAN.

Jeff Sadowski

2022-03-01 18:37:12

Wow!! Very useful video not just for iscsi not just for the pi. I wanted to do something similar for nfs mounts and your info near the end helps me with that too. I'll experiment with iscsi on other devices. I'll setup an iscsi server on another linux device.

Daniel Helgenberger

2022-03-01 18:33:30

The reason it hangs on ip6 is you are using link local address space (fe80::). Though I do not recommend using those, they will work if you specify the interface for the address, IE. fe80::1%eth0