In a previous blog post I introduced work we've done to the user-space tgt iSCSI project to allow exporting RADOS block device (rbd) images as iSCSI targets. I've recently taken a short break from working on the Calamari project to update that support to bypass some limitations and add some functionality.
The tgt-admin utility now works with the rbd backend bs_rbd. tgt-admin is used to set up tgtd from a target-configuration file, and is typically used at boot time, so this makes it handier to have persistent targets mapped on a host.
There is no more 20-rbd-image-per-tgtd limit.
tgtadm accepts a new –bsopts parameter for each mapped image to set bs_rbd options:
- conf=<path-to-ceph.conf> allows you to refer to a different ceph cluster for each image (each image has its own cluster connection)
- id=<client-id> allows each image to use a different Ceph client id, which allows per-client configuration for each image (including things like permissions, log settings, rbd cache settings, etc.) The full client name will be "client.<client-id>" in normal Ceph fashion. (The default id is "admin", as usual, for a default client name of "client.admin".)
So, for example, you might use
tgtadm --lld iscsi --mode logicalunit --op new --tid 1 --lun 1 --bstype rbd --backing-store public-image --bsopts "conf=/etc/ceph/pubcluster.conf;id=public"
to establish a target in the "pubcluster" for an image named "public-image" whose configuration is expressed in sections named "client.public". (The doublequotes are required to hide the ';' bsopts separator from the shell.)
You can pick up packages built with the Ceph rbd support from the Debian and RPM repositories at http://ceph.com/packages/ceph-extras.
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