Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-17 Thread Brian Buhrow
My read/write performance jumped by a factor of 5, which really astounded me. -thanks -Brian On Jul 16, 10:32pm, Brad Spencer wrote: } Subject: Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol? } Brian Buhrow writes: } } > hello. Yes, I was vaguely aware of the lack of extended attributes for NetBSD-Zfs,

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-16 Thread Brad Spencer
Brian Buhrow writes: > hello. Yes, I was vaguely aware of the lack of extended attributes for > NetBSD-Zfs, but > what I was suggesting was just using a flat file, exported via iscsi through > istgt or your > initiator of choice, on top of zfs, rather than a zvol, because you'll find >

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-16 Thread Brian Buhrow
hello. Yes, I was vaguely aware of the lack of extended attributes for NetBSD-Zfs, but what I was suggesting was just using a flat file, exported via iscsi through istgt or your initiator of choice, on top of zfs, rather than a zvol, because you'll find the read/write speed to be so muc

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-16 Thread Hauke Fath
At 9:15 Uhr -0700 13.07.2022, Brian Buhrow wrote: > [...] you'll get much better read-write performance if you create a standard >zfs filesystem for your time machine backup, then create a regular file in >it which you export via iscsi. To wrap up the issue, I don't even care much about which side

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-13 Thread Brian Buhrow
Hello. While this is orthogonal to the task you're working on in this e-mail, I'll note that you'll get much better read-write performance if you create a standard zfs filesystem for your time machine backup, then create a regular file in it which you export via iscsi. I discovered thi

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-12 Thread Staffan Thomén
Hauke Fath wrote: I would like to set up an iscsi target backed by a zfs zvol, to serve as a Mac time machine volume. [...] Looks like an initialization issue on behalf of iscsi-target. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Just as a data point, I am exporting a zvol via iscsi on 9.2 with iscs

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-10 Thread Michael van Elst
ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de (Hauke Fath) writes: >Jul 10 22:56:18 pizza istgt[9108]:=20 >istgt_iscsi.c:4165:istgt_iscsi_op_nopout: ***ERROR*** CmdSN(24873146)=20 >error ExpCmdSN=3D24873145=20 >Jul 10 22:56:18 pizza istgt[9108]:=20 >istgt_iscsi.c:5045:istgt_iscsi_execute: ***ERROR*** iscsi_op_no

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-10 Thread Hauke Fath
On Sun, 10 Jul 2022 19:40:56 - (UTC), Michael van Elst wrote: >> I would like to set up an iscsi target backed by a zfs zvol, to serve=20 >> as a Mac time machine volume. > > Independent of your problem you should use 'istgt' from pkgsrc. Thanks. Different, but not (much) better. While iscsi-

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-10 Thread Chavdar Ivanov
On 10 July 2022 20:40:56 (+01:00), Michael van Elst wrote: > ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de (Hauke Fath) writes: > > >I would like to set up an iscsi target backed by a zfs zvol, to serve=20 > >as a Mac time machine volume. I have been using iSCSI target backed by a zvol for quite some time.

Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-10 Thread Michael van Elst
ha...@espresso.rhein-neckar.de (Hauke Fath) writes: >I would like to set up an iscsi target backed by a zfs zvol, to serve=20 >as a Mac time machine volume. Independent of your problem you should use 'istgt' from pkgsrc. >863:/u/sources/netbsd-developer/src/external/bsd/iscsi/lib/../dist/src/li

iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

2022-07-10 Thread Hauke Fath
Hi, I would like to set up an iscsi target backed by a zfs zvol, to serve as a Mac time machine volume. But the attempt to start the target fails with # /etc/rc.d/iscsi_target onestart Starting iscsi_target. Reading configuration from `/etc/iscsi/targets' target0:rw:0.0.0.0/0 extent0:/