Mounting a filesystem on a HAST provider without HAST (was: Re: HAST, zvols, istgt and carp working...)

[Lorenzo Perone]

Hi All,

I succeeded on this topic, but a new question arose - so I'd like to
share the (provisory) solution as well as the question...

On 28.11.14 00:45, Lorenzo Perone wrote:

> Is there any way to mount the snapshot [of a provider used by hast] read only - or to have a 'hast'
> wrapper for the snapshot without having to really 'hast' it?

I was able to succeed after comparing a hexdump of the first few MBs of
the original zvol and the vol "under hast".

( /dev/zvol/rtank/vols/jail1 at hellotest vs. /dev/hast/jail1 )

The UFS filesystem on the zvol provider begins after 135168 bytes
(132KB) of hast-header.

So I tried to create a transparent provider with gnop:

gnop create -o 135168 /dev/zvol/rtank/vols/jail1 at hellotest

and the mount

mount -t ufs -o ro /dev/zvol/rtank/vols/jail1 at hellotest.nop /mnt

succeeded.

Now my new question is: Can I "safely" assume that this header is always
132K (I assume not - it probably contains the bitmap...)? In this case,
which formula should be applied to calculate the offset?

Thanks a lot in advance for any hint,

And to the FreeBSD team / pjd: THANKs for GEOM! :-)
It really is the best invention closely after espresso coffee...

Gretings and Regards,