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authorAndy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>2012-10-24 15:37:28 -0700
committerMike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>2012-11-01 18:56:35 -0500
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Update README for removal of DBM requirement
Removed in 093b1f4 (2006) Signed-off-by: Andy Grover <agrover@redhat.com>
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5. Open-iSCSI Configuration Utility
===================================
-Open-iSCSI persistent configuration is implemented as a DBM database
-available on all Linux installations.
-
-The database contains two tables:
-
-- Discovery table (/etc/iscsi/send_targets);
-- Node table (/etc/iscsi/nodes).
-
-The regular place for iSCSI database files: /etc/iscsi/nodes
+Open-iSCSI persistent configuration is stored in a number of
+directories under a configuration root directory, using a flat-file
+format. This configuration root directory is /etc/iscsi by default,
+but may also commonly be in /var/lib/iscsi.
+
+Configuration is contained in directories for:
+
+- nodes
+- slp
+- isns
+- static
+- fw
+- send_targets
+- ifaces
The iscsiadm utility is a command-line tool to manage (update, delete,
insert, query) the persistent database.