Re: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot.

2009-10-12 Thread Ulrich Windl
I wonder: a SCSI host is allocated when a device connects, and it's deallocated if a device disconnects. While (IMHO) the first step is necessary, the second isn't (the device may be there, but any attempt to use it could return "no such device" or EIO). If device deallocation were delayed and

RE: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot.

2009-10-01 Thread Lewis, Karl
M To: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot. On 09/30/2009 04:07 PM, Lewis, Karl wrote: > I'm experimenting with something similar, but it's still in the early > planning. In my case, I have several hosts logging into a common target, &

Re: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot.

2009-10-01 Thread Mike Christie
On 09/30/2009 04:07 PM, Lewis, Karl wrote: > I'm experimenting with something similar, but it's still in the early > planning. In my case, I have several hosts logging into a common target, > writing file backups to a directory, then logging out. I planned to snap the > backup LUN on the iSCS

RE: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot.

2009-09-30 Thread Lewis, Karl
nt: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 12:09 PM To: open-iscsi@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot. On 09/29/2009 06:58 PM, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > Group, > > I'm using linux to backup an ISCSI target. My backup script calls the > snapshot funct

Re: SD Driver incrementing on every snapshot.

2009-09-30 Thread Mike Christie
On 09/29/2009 06:58 PM, Matthew Schumacher wrote: > Group, > > I'm using linux to backup an ISCSI target. My backup script calls the > snapshot function on my iscsi server, then uses open-iscsi to connect to > a snapshot target on that server. The target is backed up, then I > logoff the target