Thanks a lot, glad you liked it :) Yes I agree, using older, slower disks in this way for backups seems a nice way to reuse old kit for something useful.
There's one nasty problem I've seen with making a pool from an iSCSI disk hosted on a different machine, and that is that if you turn off the hosting machine, if you then shutdown the machine using the iSCSI disk in the pool, it takes ages to shutdown. Seems like it tries forever (or a long time anyway) to connect with the iSCSI disk and finds it can't, obviously. I think there's a bug report for this, and I thought it was fixed but, as of SXCE build 85, it seems not as I saw the problem occur again yesterday. The solution is to do a 'zpool export pool_importing_iSCSI_disks' before shutting down the machine and then it will shutdown normally without trying to connect to the iSCSI target(s). More info here: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=196459𯽫 This guy seems to have had lots of fun with iSCSI :) http://web.ivy.net/~carton/oneNightOfWork/20061119-carton.html http://web.ivy.net/~carton/oneNightOfWork/20071204-zfsnotes.txt I wonder how many of his problems were due to using a non-Solaris iSCSI target? My experience of mixing iSCSI targets & initiators from different OS's was not very good, but I didn't do very much with it. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
