Quick sanity check here. I created a zvol and exported it via iSCSI to a Windows machine so Windows could use it as a block device. Windows formats it as NTFS, thinks it's a local disk, yadda yadda.
Is ZFS doing it's magic checksumming and whatnot on this share, even though it is seeing junk data (NTFS on top of iSCSI...) or am I not getting any benefits from this setup at all (besides thin provisioning, things like that?) These were my steps: Make sure service is enabled on the NAS: # svcadm enable /system/iscsitgt Create the zvol and share it (sparse volume size of 1000 gigs) # zfs create -s -V 1000g tank/shares/foo # zfs set shareiscsi=on tank/shares/foo # zfs set compression=on tank/shares/foo Install Microsoft iSCSI Software Initiator Version 2.08 on the Windows server http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=12cb3c1a-15d6-4585-b385-befd1319f825&displaylang=en Thanks in advance... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
