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TARGETS(5)                    File Formats Manual                   TARGETS(5)

NAME
     targets - configuration file for iSCSI targets

SYNOPSIS
     targets

DESCRIPTION
     The targets file describes the iSCSI storage which is presented to iSCSI
     initiators by the iscsi-target(8) service.  A description of the iSCSI
     protocol can be found in Internet Small Computer Systems Interface RFC
     3720.

     Each line in the file (other than comment lines that begin with a `#')
     specifies an extent, a device (made up of extents or other devices), or a
     target to present to the initiator.

     Each definition, an extent, a device, and a target, is specified on a
     single whitespace delimited line.

     The extent definition specifies a piece of storage that will be used as
     storage, and presented to initiators.  It is the basic definition for an
     iSCSI target.  Each target must contain at least one extent definition.
     The first field in the definition is the extent name, which must begin
     with the word "extent" and be followed by a number.  The next field is
     the file or NetBSD device which will be used as persistent storage.  The
     next field is the offset (in bytes) of the start of the extent.  This
     field is usually 0.  The fourth field in the definition is the size of
     the extent.  The basic unit is bytes, and the shorthand KB, MB, GB, and
     TB can be used for kilobytes (1024 bytes), megabytes (1024 kilobytes),
     gigabytes (1024 megabytes), and terabytes (1024 gigabytes) respectively.
     It is possible to use the word "size" to use the full size of the pre-
     existing regular file given in the extent name.

     The device definition specifies a LUN or device, and is made up of
     extents and other devices.  It is possible to create hierarchies of
     devices using the device definition.  The first field in the definition
     is the device name, which must begin with the word "device" and be
     followed by a number.  The next field is the type of resilience that is
     to be provided by the device.  For simple devices, RAID0 suffices.
     Greater resilience can be gained by using the RAID1 resilience field.
     Following the resilience field is a list of extents or other devices.
     Large devices can be created by using multiple RAID0 extents, in which
     case each extent will be concatenated.  Resilient devices can be created
     by using multiple RAID1 devices or extents, in which case data will be
     written to each of the devices or extents in turn.  If RAID1 resilience
     is used, all the extents or sub-devices must be the same size.  Please
     note that RAID1 recovery is not yet supported by the iscsi-target(8)
     utility.  An extent or sub-device may only be used once.

     The target definition specifies an iSCSI target, which is presented to
     the iSCSI initiator.  Multiple targets can be specified.  The first field
     in the definition is the target name, which must begin with either of the
     words "target" or "lun" and be followed by a number.  Optionally, if a
     target is followed by an "=" sign and some text, the text is taken to be
     that of the iSCSI Qualified Name of the target.  This IQN is used by the
     initiator to connect to the appropriate target.  The next field is a
     selector for whether the storage should be presented as writable, or
     merely as read-only storage.  The field of "rw" denotes read-write
     storage, whilst "ro" denotes read-only storage.  The next field is the
     device or extent name that will be used as persistent storage for this
     target.  The fourth field is a slash-notation netmask which will be used,
     during the discovery phase, to control the network addresses to which
     targets will be presented.  The magic values "any" and "all" will expand
     to be the same as "0/0".  If an attempt is made to discover a target
     which is not allowed by the netmask, a warning will be issued using
     syslog(3) to make administrators aware of this attempt.  The
     administrator can still use tcp wrapper functionality, as found in
     hosts_access(5) and hosts.deny(5) to allow or deny discovery attempts
     from initiators as well as using the inbuilt netmask functionality.

FILES
     /etc/iscsi/targets  the list of exported storage targets

SEE ALSO
     syslog(3), hosts.deny(5), hosts_access(5), iscsi-target(8)

HISTORY
     The targets file first appeared in NetBSD 4.0.

NetBSD 10.99                   December 18, 2007                  NetBSD 10.99