[LSF/MM TOPIC] Making sure soft SCSI Targets are Valid

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>]

Hi All

I would like to attend LSF/MM and talk with people about scsi and iscsi testing.

I am the author/maintainer for libiscsi which is userspace initiator
used primarily by KVM/QEMU.
This package also includes a pretty big test suite for mainly SCSI but
also a lot of interesting iSCSI tests.

As someone hacking on a testsuite, I would like to meet with initiator
and target implementors and talk
about the existing test suites, and how we can work together from here.


What can i bring to FSF/MM?
========================
I like SCSI and I like writing tests.
I have a big existing testsuite that I think at least some of you can
benefit from.
I would like to talk to people on how to make the test suite even better.
Can we work out a platform where we can build even better and more
comprehensive test suites ?
etc.


regards
ronnie sahlberg

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com> wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I'm not sure if there is much interest in this, but I've recently
> realized that there is no good free software to validate iSCSI targets,
> not to mention FCOE targets, IB soft targets, etc. There's just no way
> to know if any change you make is "legal" short of learning to speak
> SCSI geek spec (or waiting to see what fails when you make a subtle change).
>
> So I have been working with the (user-space) libiscsi creator and
> maintainer, Ronnie Sahlberg, to enhance his test suite. But this only
> addresses iSCSI targets. Some of his tests have already shown problems
> like kernel panics when an incorrect bit is injected, showing the need
> for such testing.
>
> It occurs to me it would be most valuable if we had more generic SCSI
> tests, not even limited to soft targets, available to developers and
> manufacturers. How best to support such tests with our SCSI layer, and
> what tests are needed now and in the future may be a good topic for
> discussion.
> --
> Lee Duncan
> SUSE Labs