On Friday, June 27, 2025 7:51:04 AM CDT Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025-06-26, Robert B. Carleton <rbc@rbcarleton.net> wrote:
> > I haven't tried it, but I contemplated trying the OpenBSD iSCSI initiator
> > iscsid(8) and using FreeBSD to provide a ZFS zvol block device as a
> > target.
> >
> > You'd still have to fsck OpenBSD filesystems on partitions from the iSCSI
> > drive, but you would get at least some advantage from having ZFS serve up
> > the storage. I didn't do any testing though, so I still don't know how
> > well it would work. Maybe someone else has tried it.
>
> That's not going to get you history, it would still be an FFS filesystem
You know, the context of that was storage for vmm virtual machines which I
wasn't sure would work well over NFS. Maybe storing virtual machine drives on
NFS isn't a problem. I didn't test that either...
On the other hand, I did spend some time NFS mounting ZFS datasets on OpenBSD
hosts and that worked just fine. It allowed me to fully use ZFS features like
snapshots, compression and de-duplication which seemed to work okay.
I was a little put off with how complicated ZFS is, and the command line
interface. It also added another OS distribution to manage in my home lab.
I eventually decided I didn't need all that, so I'm back to using an OpenBSD
NFS server, with a combination of pax, rsync, and dump for backups. It fits for
my use case.
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