I can''t decide if this is a dumb question or not (so I''ll try asking it). We have two Solaris machines (Solaris 08/07) one (x86) with a load of disk attached and one (sparc) without. I''ve configured a volume on the disk server and made that available via iscsi. Connected to that on the sparc and set it up as a zpool. Once we started using this in earnest we got problems with stabilty and performance which I''ll come back to later. For now I''d just like to get the data on this volume on to a zfs filesystem on the x86 machine. What I can''t work out is if I can just mount this directly or do I still need to access it via iSCSI? The volume concerned is shelf01/sap-spare-01 in the list below (shelf02-sap-spare-03 is a copy of that generated via zfs send | zfs receive). I can obviously grab the data by using the existing iscsi connection on the sparc and copying it back (using ssh/scp) but this seems daft as the data is having to make a complete trip round the network. I can''t decide if this is something that obviously can''t work or if I''m missing some access mechanism using /dev/zvols or similar. Paul issdata3# zfs list -o name,type NAME TYPE shelf01 filesystem shelf01/pete2 volume shelf01/sap-spare-01 volume shelf01/sap-spare-01 at safe snapshot shelf02 filesystem shelf02/sap-spare-02 filesystem shelf02/sap-spare-03 volume shelf02/sap-spare-03 at safe snapshot issdata3# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT shelf01 143G 6.57T 24.5K /shelf01 shelf01/pete2 72.8G 6.57T 72.8G - shelf01/sap-spare-01 69.7G 6.57T 69.7G - shelf01/sap-spare-01 at safe 6.13M - 69.7G - shelf02 69.7G 6.64T 24.5K /shelf02 shelf02/sap-spare-02 11.0M 6.64T 11.0M /data/sap-spare/02 shelf02/sap-spare-03 69.7G 6.64T 69.7G - shelf02/sap-spare-03 at safe 0 - 69.7G - sap-spare# zpool list NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT store01 2.92T 69.7G 2.85T 2% ONLINE - sap-spare# zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT store01 69.7G 2.81T 24.5K none store01/bw 40.4G 2.81T 40.4G /zone_mounts/bw store01/crm 6.53G 2.81T 6.53G /zone_mounts/crm store01/ep 12.2G 2.81T 12.2G /zone_mounts/ep store01/r3 10.6G 2.81T 10.6G /zone_mounts/r3 store01/trex 30.5K 2.81T 30.5K /zone_mounts/trex This message posted from opensolaris.org