Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:07:28 +0100 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zvol and zfs send no file on the receiving side. Message-ID: <20111126120727.GB8794@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <4ED0949A.8080602@gmail.com> References: <4ED0949A.8080602@gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 08:26:18AM +0100, Johan Hendriks wrote: > Hello all! > > After some reluctance using zfs i decided it was time to just use it, > and it make my life a lot easier. > Thank you all ! > > One thing i can not get to work however is sending and receiving a zfs > volume. > > I have a master so to say, and a bacup server. > On the master the pool is named storage, on the backup machine the pool > is called tank. > > on the master i did the following. > > # zfs create -V10G storage/iscsitest > > if i do a zfs list -t volume, i see that the volume is there. > > # zfs list -t volume > NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT > storage/iscsitest 10.3G 65.9G 16K - > > If i go to the directory /storage and do a ls -al > i see my zvol file. > > # ls -al > total 1901416 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 5 Nov 25 17:44 . > drwxr-xr-x 19 root wheel 1024 Nov 25 11:33 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 10737418240 Nov 25 20:46 iscsitest Very interesting that you have this file here. It surely wasn't created by ZFS. ZVOL is not regular file, it is a GEOM provider (disk-like device) and can be found in /dev/zvol/storage/iscsitest. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7Q1n8ACgkQForvXbEpPzQhnACbBuB874983gYwNOQFAOJd2mly bHMAoPa7JJOmyC9TW+qHOhX4GJUJg18r =ZWKd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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