From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 20 23:05:57 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6A8B1828 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:05:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1364C1B7C for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [172.17.17.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id s1KN5s8h094675 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:05:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.7/8.14.6) with ESMTP id s1KN5spG080924 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:05:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.8/8.14.7/Submit) id s1KN5scZ080923; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:05:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:05:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Steve Burton Subject: Re: iSCSI Backing store Message-ID: <20140220230554.GF80443@dan.emsphone.com> References: <530661A6.1030606@sliderule.demon.co.uk> <20140220204526.GE80443@dan.emsphone.com> <5306708D.6090001@sliderule.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5306708D.6090001@sliderule.demon.co.uk> X-OS: FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.1 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (email2.allantgroup.com [172.17.19.78]); Thu, 20 Feb 2014 17:05:54 -0600 (CST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on email2.allantgroup.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 Cc: FreeBSD Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 23:05:57 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 20), Steve Burton said: > On 20/02/2014 20:45, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Feb 20), Steve Burton said: > >> I'm trying to familiarize myself with the iSCSI implementation in > >> FreeBSD 10 REL. I have made a target containing two LUNs which are > >> backed by two files on my test server (redundant PC). This all worked > >> well though it took ages to make the files using dd. > >> > >> My second question relates to making iSCSI LUNs using a disk volume. I > >> have a second (empty) hard drive. Is it possible to just use the disk > >> as backing store for iSCSI? > > > > I don't see why not. > > I didn't see why not either but so far I can't see how :) You haven't said what error message you are getting when you specify a raw device, though... "path /dev/ada1", for example. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com