This is because iSCSI is a block-level protocol.  It needs to 'talk'
directly to blocks.  The -V option tell zfs to create a virtual block
device.  Once you connect to it over iSCSI, you can format it like you
would any block device.

If you want to connect to a zfs filesystem (instead of block device),
you need to do so with something like NFS or CIFS.



On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Billy <cypour at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could this be a bug?
>
> If you try creating a filesystem without the -V switch, then iscsi shareing 
> does not work right for that filesystem.
>
> I tried it again and now I'm positive that if you don't set a size for you 
> new filesystem, then shareing it over iscsi does not work although the zfs 
> command does not return an error.
>
> Anyway, I'm just shareing info...
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