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Cc: Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
Subject: Re: XFS/istgt backed 8TB xfs filesystem configuration?
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----- Mark Felder's Original Message -----
> Am I correct that you're proposing the following configuration:
> 
> FreeBSD Server -> zpool -> zvol -> istgt -> Linux server -> iscsi  
> initiator -> XFS filesystem
> 
> If so then yes, I am using a setup like this. It works quite well. :-)

Yes. Since I'm using multipath, I might add:

FreeBSD Server -> zpool -> zvol -> istgt -> Linux server -> iscsi(/dev/sd[bcde]) -> multipath(/dev/dm-X)

Have you found any blocksizes, cache sizes, etc, that seem optimal?

Thanks,
John