Adding open-iscsi package to the ChimeraOS, alognside with kernel parts of it (for extending storage over network)

[Nicarim]

Hey,

I've been working on a personal NAS/HTPC combo where I'd like to offload majority of the storage to the NAS device which hosts my big storage array. The HTPC I want to treat as just GPU/CPU/thin client for the games, which doesn't have much space available to add any 3.5" drive. To achieve best performance, I'd like to use iSCSI to mount network block device directly in ChimeraOS. However, it seems like it's not possible to install without ejecting from frzr.

I'd like to request adding open-iscsi package (initiator) to the base image of ChimeraOS.

You can read more here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Open-iSCSI

It could be disabled by default in systemctl, so just anyone that is indeed interested in such niche feature, could enable it for them.

[pastaq]

How much space does this package and its dependencies take up when installed?

[Nicarim]

Packages themselves are relatively small:

But there are also kernel modules that would need to be included as well, specifically scsi_transport_iscsi, iscsi_tcp and libiscsi

But it seems to come around under 5MB for all of them.

[NeroReflex]

I am working on a refactor that will allows users to use a user-provided kernel and customize the image after the creation, we might want to use those new tools instead of adding this for every user since this seems to be a niche of a use-case