* Urs Blaser [Wed Nov 02, 2011 at 09:24:06PM +0100]:

After still using 2010.12 for a long time, i switched my troubleshooting usb-stick to 2011.05 and tried to export a local drive via iscsi.

Sadly this didn't worked out of the box because the kernel module was missing. I checked the packages and found that iscsitarget-module-`uname -r` wasn't installed... After installing this, there was a module version mismatch which required a upgrade of iscsitarget.

The module version mismatch is supposedly due to the fact that the packages evolved since the release. But why didn't the kernel module made it into the release when it's needed by iscsitarget that's shipped - and that http://grml.org/kernel/ advertises this module.

What did i miss in the whole process?

You didn't miss anything, the iscsitarget module sadly slipped through the release process. Sorry, my fault.

And how do i best prepare for the next use of iscsitarget from the liveCD?

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand your question.

If you want to fix the issue for the *existing* 2011.05 release then your can either use the live persistency feature or remaster the ISO (using grml-live with the provided chroots from http://debian.netcologne.de/grml/release-chroots/ provides a pretty simple way).

If you're interested how this is supposed to work with *upcoming* release(s) of Grml: iscsitarget currently doesn't compile against kernel 3.1.0 IIRC. But the 3.1 linux kernel provides a new infrastructure for iscsi since the SCST implementation has been replaced with the Linux-iSCSI.org target -> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdif...

But I'm not sure whether this will make it into the upcoming Grml release in time since the necessary userspace tools (like lio-utils) aren't available as Debian packages yet AFAICS. Any help on that front is highly appreciated though.

regards, -mika-