Oh, my gripe is not with Poettering creating a systemd service for it (for I cannot dispute that systemd wrappers such as this does make life somewhat easier), but I would have liked perhaps a more distribution agnostic method of running NVMe-TCP in a way that the OS would not have to be booted. I suppose I do understand the community’s support for this: systemd is used by most of the popular distributions, and writing a service in it will enable systemd to maybe interleave this between other processes and perhaps fulfill the goal of producing a block device on an L3 network without booting userland.
As one can probably surmise, I do not have a great understanding of how the process works - will have to figure out how MacOS did it first, and then about how Poettering implemented it. I think I’ll have a better idea of what the solution is geared towards.
I mean, it specifically is giving support for booting disks over an existing protocol to systemd. That’s pretty well within scope?
Oh, my gripe is not with Poettering creating a systemd service for it (for I cannot dispute that systemd wrappers such as this does make life somewhat easier), but I would have liked perhaps a more distribution agnostic method of running NVMe-TCP in a way that the OS would not have to be booted. I suppose I do understand the community’s support for this: systemd is used by most of the popular distributions, and writing a service in it will enable systemd to maybe interleave this between other processes and perhaps fulfill the goal of producing a block device on an L3 network without booting userland.
As one can probably surmise, I do not have a great understanding of how the process works - will have to figure out how MacOS did it first, and then about how Poettering implemented it. I think I’ll have a better idea of what the solution is geared towards.
Thanks for your comment!