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sbdadm can be used with a regular ZFS file or a ZFS block device. Is there an advatage to using a ZFS block device and exporting it to comstar via sbdadm as opposed to using a file and exporting it? (e.g. performance or manageability?) Also- let''s say you have a 5G block device called pool/test...

...d export via iscsi. I have a number of snapshots of this volume. I need to temporarily go back to an older snapshot without removing all the more recent ones. I can delete the current sbd LU, clone the snapshot I want to test, and then bring that back in to sbd. The problem is that you need to use sbdadm create-lu and that creates a new GUID. (sbdadm import-lu on a clone will give you a metafile error). Is it possible to change the GUID of the newly imported volume to match the old volume (even if that means changing the guid of the old volume first)? I had hoped this could be done by dumping the...

I am confused, because I would have expected a 1-to-1 mapping, if you create an iscsi target on some system, you would have to specify which LUN it connects to. But that is not the case... I read the man pages for sbdadm, stmfadm, itadm, and iscsiadm. I read some online examples, where you first "sbdadm create-lu" which gives you a GUID for a specific device in the system, and then "stmfadm add-view $GUID", and then "itadm create-target." It''s this last command that confuses...

-bash-3.2# zpool export exchbk cannot remove device links for ''exchbk/exchbk-2'': dataset is busy this is a zvol used for a comstar iscsi backend: -bash-3.2# stmfadm list-lu -v LU Name: 600144F0EAC0090000004A0A4F410001 Operational Status: Offline Provider Name : sbd Alias : /dev/zvol/rdsk/exchbk/exchbk-1 View Entry Count : 1 LU Name:

...w to this discussion lists so i hope im posting in the right place. I started using zfs not too long ago. Im trying to figure out the ISCSI and NFS sharing for the moment. For the ISCSI sharing at the moment im using COMSTAR. A created the appropriate target, also a LU corespondent to the zvol with sbdadm, then created a view attached to this. Im wondering is there a way to actually delete a zvol ignoring the fact that it has attached LU? I noticed the -f option does not help in this specific case. I know it can be deleted by first deleting the attached LU and everything else, but im wondering if is...