From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 02:28:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7923DE3 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:28:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Kamil.Choudhury@anserinae.net) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.122]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B08E35F3 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:28:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=H5hZMpki c=1 sm=0 a=jrWvM0xCa/yzQsHFmCBh5A==:17 a=XtYZqdvDNwYA:10 a=3xLwOXIM4dgA:10 a=WWGGoYozHbgA:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=xqWC_Br6kY4A:10 a=NUNO_Q2GAAAA:8 a=5IDOE-LcbBkA:10 a=Q6Ojrw04AAAA:8 a=6SwBGEUBGz--ewoBKqQA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=qY5geOaZfuAA:10 a=jrWvM0xCa/yzQsHFmCBh5A==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 74.73.121.187 Received: from [74.73.121.187] ([74.73.121.187:62624] helo=janus.anserinae.net) by hrndva-oedge03.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id 99/BF-02677-12CF4515; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:27:45 +0000 Received: from JANUS.anserinae.net ([fe80::192c:4b89:9fe9:dc6d]) by janus.anserinae.net ([fe80::192c:4b89:9fe9:dc6d%11]) with mapi; Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:27:44 -0400 From: Kamil Choudhury To: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" Subject: Building ZFS out of ISCSI LUNs? Thread-Topic: Building ZFS out of ISCSI LUNs? Thread-Index: Ac4sI+oaiWa6H9LnTPqWxjVOV0dXlA== Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:27:43 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:28:53 -0000 I stumbled across this thread on ServerFault:=20 http://serverfault.com/questions/419679/zfs-over-iscsi-high-availability-so= lution Summary: export LUNs from various (independent, share-nothing) storage nod= es, cobble them together into vdevs, and then create storage pools on them.= =20 Am I insane, or could this (with a layer to coordinate access to the LUNs)= be a pretty nifty way to create a distributed storage system? =20