On 2015-07-31 06:24, Kai Gallasch wrote: > > Hi. > > Just read that FreeNAS 10 is going to use sysutils/iocage for managing > local jails on the NAS. That is great news and it will give iocage more > publicity and a wider user base! > > I am currently testing a FreeNAS 9 as a NAS for my FreeBSD servers. Each > (FreeBSD 10) server is running between 10-50 iocage jails. > > iocage's documentation states that each iocage installation needs a > zpool to run on. > > So the only way I see to use a NAS for iocage deployment would be to > make use of iSCSI (block based) mounts. The NAS would offer an iscsi > target to the jailhost. When mounted, it just shows up as a block based > LUN. You then could create a zpool on this LUN and use this zpool for > iocage. (Each time the jailhost starts up, the iSCSI mount + zpool > import would have to happen automatically) > > Does this approach make any sense when both performance or stability are > needed? > > Is it generally adviseable to use zpools on iSCSI targets, because they > are basically iSCSI exported zvols running on top of another zpool? > > Regards, > Kai. >
If FreeBSD 9 is your NAS, why are the disks remote? Normally, you'd run iocage on the NAS (the machine with the physical disks in it) and have direct access to the zpool. -- Allan Jude
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