Kevin, Kevin Pattison wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm setting up a ZFS based fileserver to use both as a shared network drive > and separately to have an iSCSI target to be used as the "Hard disk" of a > windows based VM runninf on another machine. > > I've built the machine, installed the OS, created the RAIDZ pool and now have > a couple of questions (I'm pretty much new to Solaris by the way but have > been using Linux for some time). In my attempt to create the iSCSI target to > be used and the VM disk I created (through the web frontend) a new dataset > under the main pool of type "Volume" and gave it 30GB of space and called it > iTunesVM. I then tried to run: > zfs set shareiscsi=on tank/iTunesVM > but got the error: > cannot share 'tank/iTunesVM': iscsitgtd failed request to share > cannot share 'tank/itune...@zfs-auto-snap:weekly-2009-01-02-15:02': iscsitgtd > failed request to share > This needs to be investigated. From what I see all the snapshots on that volume inherit the shareiscsi property. And hence when we set it we try to share the snapshots as well and that is failing here.
Thanks and regards, Sanjeev. > I've checked and my iSCSI target service is on and running. > > With regards a network share accessible to both Windows, Linux and Mac OS > machines on the network, what protocol would be best to use (NFS or SMB). I > would then like to set up a locally hosted headless windows VM to run a > Windows Media Player/iTunes share over the network for access to the music > from my xbox/PS3. > > All help appreciated, > Kevpatts > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
