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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:42:14 +0000
From:      John <jwd@freebsd.org>
To:        FreeBSD FS <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Mark Felder <feld@feld.me>
Subject:   Re: XFS/istgt backed 8TB xfs filesystem configuration?
Message-ID:  <20120918124214.GA79439@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.wktwglik34t2sn@tech304>
References:  <20120918010812.GA71005@FreeBSD.org> <op.wktwglik34t2sn@tech304>

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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



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