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Date:      Sun, 06 Sep 2015 20:10:59 +0300
From:      "Zeus Panchenko" <zeus@ibs.dn.ua>
To:        "Willem Jan Withagen" <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: can zfs snapshot be used to back LUN in ctl.conf ?
Message-ID:  <20150906201059.70248@smtp.new-ukraine.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 6 Sep 2015 16:35:39 %2B0200 <55EC4F3B.7090804@digiware.nl>
References:  <20150827150027.10825@smtp.new-ukraine.org> <55EC4F3B.7090804@digiware.nl>

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Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> wrote:
> > istgt do allows that, while ctld fails to start and complains
> >=20
> > but if I copy the file from zfs snapshot to some place, then ctld starts
> > as expected ...
>=20
> As far as I know those snapshots are read-only.

yes, and it is just what I want

> So other that mount and use for reading backup stuff it does not really
> serve a purpose?

file is NTFS volume, I need to provide it to win host ... ctld refuses
to do that even in ro mode :(


> And than still you'd next a "consistent" fs on the
> volume to do any useful work. So that would only work for filesystems
> that need a recover that does not involve writing to the volume.

yes, no writing ... just reading ... and I wonder why istgt was doing
that fine but ctld refuses :(

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Zeus V. Panchenko				jid:zeus@im.ibs.dn.ua
IT Dpt., I.B.S. LLC					  GMT+2 (EET)

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