Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:56:52 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: zvol and zfs send no file on the receiving side. Message-ID: <4ED0E214.3090506@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111126120727.GB8794@garage.freebsd.pl> References: <4ED0949A.8080602@gmail.com> <20111126120727.GB8794@garage.freebsd.pl>
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Pawel Jakub Dawidek schreef: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:26:18AM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: >> Hello all! >> >> After some reluctance using zfs i decided it was time to just use it, >> and it make my life a lot easier. >> Thank you all ! >> >> One thing i can not get to work however is sending and receiving a zfs >> volume. >> >> 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 >> is called tank. >> >> on the master i did the following. >> >> # zfs create -V10G storage/iscsitest >> >> if i do a zfs list -t volume, i see that the volume is there. >> >> # zfs list -t volume >> NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT >> storage/iscsitest 10.3G 65.9G 16K - >> >> If i go to the directory /storage and do a ls -al >> i see my zvol file. >> >> # 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. > I think that the file gets created by the istgt software itself. i set that path in /usr/local/etc/istgt/istgt.conf #LUN0 Storage /storage/iscsitest 10GB That make me think that it was my zvol. Well i am glad this is solved it caused me lot of headache, but i have learned a lot :D Tonight i will try it all! regards and thank you both for your time. Johan Hendriks
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