Re: iscsi target on a zfs zvol?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> writes:

> 	hello.  Yes, I was vaguely aware of the lack of extended attributes for NetBSD-Zfs, but
> what I was suggesting was just using a flat file, exported via iscsi through istgt or your
> initiator of choice, on top of zfs, rather than a zvol, because you'll find the read/write speed
> to be so much faster.  Unfortunately, it seems the upstream zfs maintainers have decided that
> zvols are not worth the time to optimize, so while they're functional, they're not performant
> under any openzfs-using implementation.  This makes me sad because zvols are such a tidy way to
> manage so many different kinds of things.
>
> -thanks
> -Brian


I freely admit that I don't use zvols very much in NetBSD, but did you
mess with the volblocksize any on the volume??


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