On Aug 4, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Terry Hull wrote:
>> From: Richard Elling <rich...@nexenta.com>
>> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 11:05:21 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Logical Units and ZFS send / receive
>> 
>> On Aug 3, 2010, at 11:58 PM, Terry Hull wrote:
>>> I have a logical unit created with sbdadm create-lu that it I replicating
>>> with zfs send  / receive between 2 build 134 hosts.   The these LUs are 
>>> iSCSI
>>> targets used as VMFS filesystems and ESX RDMs mounted on a Windows 2003
>>> machine.   The zfs pool names are the same on both machines.  The 
>>> replication
>>> seems to be going correctly.  However, when I try to use the LUs on the
>>> server I am replicating the data to, I have issues.   Here is the scenario:
>>> 
>>> The LUs are created as sparse.  Here is the process I’m going through after
>>> the snapshots are replicated to a secondary machine:
>> 
>> How did you replicate? In b134, the COMSTAR metadata is placed in
>> hidden parameters in the dataset. These are not transferred via zfs send,
>> by default.  This metadata includes the LU.
>> -- richard
> 
> Does the -p option on the zfs send solve that problem?

I am unaware of a "zfs send -p" option.  Did you mean the -R option?

The LU metadata is stored in the stmf_sbd_lu property.  You should be able
to get/set it.

> What else is not sent
> by default?   In other words, am I better off sending the metadata with the
> zfs send, or am I better off just creating the GUID once I get the data
> transferred?  

I don't think this is a GUID issue.
 -- richard

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