similar to: getting and setting properties on zvols from kernel

The /dev/[r]dsk nodes implement the O_EXCL flag. If a node is opened using the O_EXCL, subsequent open(2) to that node fail. But I dont think the same is true for /dev/zvol/[r]dsk nodes. Is that a bug (or maybe RFE) ? Thanks Sumit -- This messages posted from opensolaris.org

> I tried to copy a 8GB Xen domU disk image from a zvol device > to an image file on an ufs filesystem, and was surprised that > reading from the zvol character device doesn''t detect "EOF". > > On snv_66 (sparc) and snv_73 (x86) I can reproduce it, like this: > > # zfs create -V 1440k tank/floppy-img > > # dd if=/dev/zvol/dsk/tank/floppy-img

ZVOL was recently converted to use range locking, but it seems the comment below wasn''t updated: /* * There must be no buffer changes when doing a dmu_sync() * because * we can''t change the data whilst calculating the checksum. * A better approach than a per zvol rwlock would be to lock * ranges. */ -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl

I''ve been seeing read and write performance pathologies with Linux ext3 over iSCSI to zvols, especially with small writes. Does running a journalled filesystem to a zvol turn the block storage into swiss cheese? I am considering serving ext3 journals (and possibly swap too) off a raw, hardware-mirrored device. Before I do (and I''ll write up any results) I''d like to know

How can I set up a ZVOL that''s accessible by non-root users, too? The intent is to use sparse ZVOLs as raw disks in virtualization (reducing overhead compared to file-based virtual volumes). Thanks, -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org

A colleague just asked if zfs delegation worked with zvols too. Thought I''d give it a go and got myself in a mess (tank/linkfixer is the delegated dataset): root at non-global / # zfs create -V 500M tank/linkfixer/foo cannot create device links for ''tank/linkfixer/foo'': permission denied cannot create ''tank/linkfixer/foo'': permission denied Ok, so

Hello, I was doing performance testing, validating zvol performance in particularly, and found that zvol write performance to be slow ~35-44MB/s at 1MB blocksize writes. I then tested the underlying zfs file system with the same test and got 121MB/s. Is there any way to fix this? I really would like to have compatible performance between the zfs filesystem and the zfs zvols. # first test is a

Team, **Please respond to me and my coworker listed in the Cc, since neither one of us are on this alias** QUICK PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: Cu created a dataset which contains all the zvols for a particular zone. The zone is then given access to all the zvols in the dataset using a match statement in the zoneconfig (see long problem description for details). After the initial boot of the zone

Can you use a different zvol for dump and swap rather than using the swap and dump zvol created by liveupgrade? Casper

Hi, I have a question, let''s say I have a zvol named vol1 which is a clone of a snapshot of another zvol (its origin property is tank/myvol at mysnap). If I send this zvol to a different zpool through a zfs send does it send the origin too that is, does an automatic promotion happen or do I end up whith a broken zvol? Best regards. Maurilio. -- This message posted from

I''m trying to add extra zvols to a Solaris10 DomU, sv_113 Dom0 I can use virsh attach-disk <name> <zvol> hdb --device phy to attach the zvol as c0d1. Replacing hdb by hdd gives me c1d1 but then that is it. Being able to attach several more zvols would be nice but even being able to get at c1d0 would be useful Am I missing something or can I only attach to hda/hdb/hdd?

The `lofiadm'' man page describes how to export a file as a block device and then use `mkfs -F pcfs'' to create a FAT filesystem on it. Can''t I do the same thing by first creating a zvol and then creating a FAT filesystem on it? Nothing I''ve tried seems to work. Isn''t the zvol just another block device? -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Group-

I''ve upgraded my system from ufs to zfs (root pool). By default, it creates a zvol for dump and swap. It''s a 4GB Ultra-45 and every late night/morning I run a job which takes around 2GB of memory. With a zvol swap, the system becomes unusable and the Sun Ray client often goes into "26B". So I removed the zvol swap and now I have a standard swap partition. The

After multiple power outages caused by storms coming through, I can no longer access /dev/zvol/dsk/poolname, which are hold l2arc and slog devices in another pool I don''t think this is related, since I the pools are ofline pending access to the volumes. I tried running find /dev/zvol/dsk/poolname -type f and here is the stack, hopefully this someone a hint at what the issue is, I have

Hey all - Time for my silly question of the day, and before I bust out vi and dtrace... If there a simple, existing way I can observe the read / write / IOPS on a per-zvol basis? If not, is there interest in having one? Cheers! Nathan.

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What does it mean for the reported value of a zvol volsize to be less than the product of used and compressratio? For example, # zfs get -p all home1/home1mm01 NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE home1/home1mm01 type volume - home1/home1mm01 creation 1254440045 - home1/home1mm01 used 14902492672

Hello All, I am running NTFS over iSCSI on a ZFS ZVOL volume with compression=gzip-9 and blocksize=8K. The server is 2 core P4 3.0 Ghz with 5 GB of RAM. Whenever I start copying files from Windows onto the ZFS disk, after about 100-200 Mb been copied the server starts to experience freezes. I have iostat running, which freezes as well. Even pings on both of the network adapters are reporting

This looks like the same issue as: 6829176 dd w/ large block size fails on a zvol''s character device (metadb usesthe character interface even if you specify the block one). - Eric -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Paul, > While testing iscsi targets exported from thumpers via 10GbE and > imported 10GbE on T2000s I am not seeing the throughput I expect, > and more importantly there is a tremendous amount of read IO > happending on a purely sequential write workload. (Note all systems > have Sun 10GbE cards and are running Nevada b65.) The read IO activity you are seeing is a direct