On Fri, Jun 27, 2025, at 1:51 PM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2025-06-26, Robert B. Carleton <r...@rbcarleton.net> wrote: >> I haven't tried it, but I contemplated trying the OpenBSD iSCSI initiator >> iscsid(8) and using FreeBSD to provide a ZFS zvol block device as a target. >> >> You'd still have to fsck OpenBSD filesystems on partitions from the iSCSI >> drive, but you would get at least some advantage from having ZFS serve up >> the >> storage. I didn't do any testing though, so I still don't know how well it >> would work. Maybe someone else has tried it. > > That's not going to get you history, it would still be an FFS filesystem
I think it would let you mount earlier versions of the filesystem read-only. You'd have to separately mount each date-time you wanted to examine; annoying unless you scripted it. I'm not going to go this route. When I learned OpenBSD doesn't have log structured filesystems, I thought I'd use it just for networking and some other OS for file serving. Now I'm reading up on OmniOS, I might use it for both tasks as its IPF looks simple enough.
