I couldn’t find satisfying documentation about how to get a iscsi drive running on nixos.
I tried to install open-iscsi and run iscsiadm but this does not work since nixos does not allow changes in /etc/iscsi/ it seems. I am new to nixos.
I have found some mentions about using the configuration.nix file but not how to do that exactly.
thanks in advance.
Ok I figured it out.
you need to enable iscsid in the conf and then you can also add the file system.
configuration.nix:
services.openiscsi.enable = true;
# probably not needed
services.openiscsi.discoverPortal = "ip:3260";
# probably not needed
services.openiscsi.name = "iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:steam-library";
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
openiscsi
];
fileSystems."/run/media/user/SteamLibrary" = {
device = "/dev/disk/by-uuid/uuidasdfasdfasdfasdf";
fsType = "btrfs";
options = ["nofail"
"nofail"
"auto"
"users"
"exec"
"x-systemd.automount"
];
};
you probably can setup the auto login in the configuration.nix too but I was happy to be able to use the iscsiadm after enableing openiscsi.
source:
https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/options
I was trying to accomplish the same thing but I was able to auto login. I was able to accomplish it with this in my configuration.nix:
{
services.openiscsi = {
enable = true;
discoverPortals = [ "ip:3260" ];
targets = [ "iqn.2005-10.org.freenas.ctl:lingames" ];
extraConfig = ''
node.startup = automatic
node.session.auth.authmethod = None
'';
};