Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-11 Thread Darren J Moffat
Ross wrote: Bleh, found out why they weren't appearing. I was just creating a regular ZFS filesystem and setting shareiscsi=on. If you create a volume it works fine... I wonder if that's something that could do with being added to the documentation for shareiscsi? I can see now that

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Bleh, found out why they weren't appearing. I was just creating a regular ZFS filesystem and setting shareiscsi=on. If you create a volume it works fine... I wonder if that's something that could do with being added to the documentation for shareiscsi? I can see now that all the examples of

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-08 Thread Ross
Hey guys, I just hit exactly the same problem, but for some reason I can't see one of my zpools in /dev/zvol/rdsk. I'm testing out ZFS over iSCSI. To begin with I created a 1GB file on an 8GB pool, it seemed ok (but I'd missed the fact it was using 1GB of RAM). Next I wanted a bigger iSCSI

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-08 Thread John Tracy
This thread is actually a bit different than what you're experiencing. I never see any huge memory usage from the iscsitgtd in the process table, but I'm definitely encountering memory leaks. And the box itself stays stable and at low CPU utilization. I can restart the iscsitgtd and the

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2008-02-08 Thread John Tracy
I think I know the problem you are encountering well, and have managed to overcome it. I'll outline here exactly how I'm creating my iscsi targets, and I'm hoping you might see where your commands are different. As Jim pointed out, the problem was that I was creating the filesystem on a cached

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2007-11-26 Thread John Tracy
Thanks Jim- That was exactly the problem. Have a good Monday. -John This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2007-11-21 Thread John Tracy
Hello All- I'm working on a Sun Ultra 80 M2 workstation. It has eight 750 GB SATA disks installed. I've tried the following on both ON build 72, Solaris 10 update 4, and Indiana with the same results. If I create a ZFS filesystem using 1-7 hard drives (I've tried 1 and 7), and then try to

Re: [zfs-discuss] iSCSI target using ZFS filesystem as backing

2007-11-21 Thread Jim Dunham
John, I'm working on a Sun Ultra 80 M2 workstation. It has eight 750 GB SATA disks installed. I've tried the following on both ON build 72, Solaris 10 update 4, and Indiana with the same results. If I create a ZFS filesystem using 1-7 hard drives (I've tried 1 and 7), and then try to