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Date:      Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:07:28 +0100
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: zvol and zfs send  no file on the receiving side.
Message-ID:  <20111126120727.GB8794@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4ED0949A.8080602@gmail.com>
References:  <4ED0949A.8080602@gmail.com>

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On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:26:18AM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote:
> Hello all!
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> After some reluctance using zfs i decided it was time to just use it,=20
> and it make my life a lot easier.
> Thank you all !
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> One thing i can not get to work however is sending and receiving a zfs=20
> volume.
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> I have a master so to say, and a bacup server.
> On the master the pool is named storage, on the backup machine the pool=
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> is called tank.
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> on the master i did the following.
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> # zfs create -V10G storage/iscsitest
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> if i do a zfs list -t volume, i see that the volume is there.
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> # zfs list -t volume
> NAME                       USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
> storage/iscsitest         10.3G  65.9G    16K  -
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> If i go to the directory /storage and do a ls -al
> i see my zvol file.
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> # ls -al
> total 1901416
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel            5 Nov 25 17:44 .
> drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel         1024 Nov 25 11:33 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  10737418240 Nov 25 20:46 iscsitest

Very interesting that you have this file here. It surely wasn't created
by ZFS. ZVOL is not regular file, it is a GEOM provider (disk-like device)
and can be found in /dev/zvol/storage/iscsitest.

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
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