scsi: target: prefer dbroot of /etc/target over /var/target
authorLee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Fri, 6 Apr 2018 18:31:41 +0000 (11:31 -0700)
committerMartin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Thu, 19 Apr 2018 04:47:02 +0000 (00:47 -0400)
commit78a6295c71cb276f8ab0bfc786f3543a4e756a8f
tree6bcd3b7a9a5eb3122fec0da1ca8ff4b7e1beccf8
parentbcbba7bb54e9a7c6ed35bbd5514e0507d8c495cb
scsi: target: prefer dbroot of /etc/target over /var/target

The target database root directory, dbroot, has defaulted to /var/target
for a while, but its main client, targetcli-fb, has been moving it to
/etc/target for quite some time. With the plethora of target drivers now
appearing, it has become more difficult to initialize this attribute
before use by any child drivers.

If the directory /etc/target exists, use that as the DB root. Otherwise,
fall back to using /var/target.

The ability to override this dbroot attribute still exists via sysfs.

Signed-off-by: Lee Duncan <lduncan@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
drivers/target/target_core_configfs.c
drivers/target/target_core_internal.h