ISCSI initiator starts too late (after zfs) on reboot

[mgiammarco]

Hello,
I installed nas4free (very nice...) and connected 5 hdd via iscsi. Then I built a zfs raid on top of them.
All is good but at reboot unfortunately zfs is not mounted/imported.
I can do a zpool import -a on command line.
I suppose that the iscsi initiator starts after zfs import at boot, is it possible?

I need a workaround btw!

Thanks,
Mario

[ChriZathens]

I believe that a workaround would be to add the command zpool import-a as a postinit script?

[amg]

Hi,

I have a similar problem: I have attached 4 additinal disks as iscsi targets and organize sofware RAID5 of 8 disks.
But after restart iscsi_initiator service not starting and RAID not mounts.
I starting iscsi_initiator by command (/etc/rc.d/iscsi_initiator start) from console or WEBGUI:Advaced->command without problem. After that GEOM_RAID5 automatically found missing iscsi targets and mount the RAID.
But I don't find the way to start iscsi_initiator automatically.
Line "iscsi_initiator_enable="YES"" in rc.conf is present.
PostInit command have no result: "/etc/rc.d/iscsi_initiator start" as single command and as script - same result - system even not trying to start iscsi_initiator (not records in LOGs).

Tested on " 9.1.0.1 - Sandstorm (revision 775)" and "9.1.0.1 - Sandstorm (revision 804)" (x64) - same situation.

Please, help me start iscsi_initiator automatically.

[alexey123]

You can find answer if you learn files into /etc/rc.d folder
Such /etc/rc.d/zfs

# PROVIDE: zfs
# REQUIRE: mountcritlocal

and /etc/rc.d/iscsi_initiator

# PROVIDE: iscsi_initiator
# REQUIRE: NETWORKING netwait
# BEFORE: mountcritremote

I attach start up sequence for NAS4Free, zfs need start before iscsi, this is server, not client.
Start sequence - from top to bottom on my diagramma

[amg]

Thanks,

BUT: I tryed to modify this files with same idea, AND - after restart files are same like befor restart, all my editions gone...

PS: embeded installation on USB flash.
PS2: in LOGs no records system to try to start iscsi_initiator at all... in all my experiments...
PS3: ther is NO file associated with GEOM_RAID5 in /etc/rc.d ...

[raulfg3]

Try full install.