Paul Morris
Dabbler
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- Sep 3, 2014
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I ran into an issue trying to use send/receive from Solaris to Freenas. Seems there is an incompatibility issue between the two versions which require some special setup gyrations to overcome. If instead I create a zvol and mount that using iSCSI on the Solaris system and create a ZFS pool on that, does the underlying Freenas RAIDZ2 configuration protect the data stored on the ZVOL as if in fact it were ZFS data set defined on the Freenas?
I intend to do some experiments to check this out but was just curious if anyone had any experience with this type of configuration. I have about 8TB of data contained in 5 separate ZVOLs in this configuration and really don't want to take a chance at losing it. Since the Solaris pool has no redundancy on the Solaris side and is just basically a single disk drive, what kind of problems could I expect on the Solaris side of things if one of the devices underlying the ZVOL had a problem.
What about snapshots, is a ZVOL considered a single file on the ZFS pool and does a snapshot retain changes on the ZVOL?
Was this a bad idea to use ZVOLs in this manner?
I intend to do some experiments to check this out but was just curious if anyone had any experience with this type of configuration. I have about 8TB of data contained in 5 separate ZVOLs in this configuration and really don't want to take a chance at losing it. Since the Solaris pool has no redundancy on the Solaris side and is just basically a single disk drive, what kind of problems could I expect on the Solaris side of things if one of the devices underlying the ZVOL had a problem.
What about snapshots, is a ZVOL considered a single file on the ZFS pool and does a snapshot retain changes on the ZVOL?
Was this a bad idea to use ZVOLs in this manner?