ZVOL and snapshots length problem

[Ivailo A. Tanusheff]

Hi there,

But how may I fix this?
As far as I know ZFS both allows names with spaces inside and with more than 63 symbols.
So how may I make this work for me?

Regards,

Ivailo Tanusheff

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin at lispworks.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 6:13 PM
To: Ivailo A. Tanusheff
Cc: freebsd-fs at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ZVOL and snapshots length problem

>>>>> On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:19:28 +0000, Ivailo A Tanusheff said:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have some trouble creating and manipulating ZVOL on my server. I am using FreeBSD 10 and I am creating a little bit sophisticated structure, where I create several file systems and volumes inside them for easy manipulation and snapshot management.
> An example structure is:
> <POOL> / <General type of system> / <Application System name, if any> 
> / <Server name> / <Volume name>
> 
> Whenever my ZVOL path exceeds 63 characters, both when creating volume or snapshot,  I receive this error in my messages log:
> Feb 20 13:05:04 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/DB at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:05, error=22) Feb 20 
> 13:05:04 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/FS at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:05, error=22) Feb 20 
> 13:05:05 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/Report at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:05, error=63)
> 
> Feb 20 13:10:05 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/DB at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:10, error=22) Feb 20 
> 13:10:05 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/FS at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:10, error=22) Feb 20 
> 13:10:05 FreeBSD kernel: g_dev_taste: make_dev_p() failed 
> (gp->name=zvol/TANK/Bank 
> system/Core/Report at Daily_operations_2015-02-20-13:10, error=63)
> 
> As far as I digged into it this is due to impossibility of creation  of /dev/zvol/... pointing to that volume or snapshot, while the volume/snapshot is still visible in the zfs list tree, although I am not quite sure I can use it.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this behavior or this is an implementation bug, not described in the manual?
> If I create shorter names the problem disappears, but this is contra version of what I needed, so it is a not acceptable solution.

I think this is a limitation in FreeBSD device naming.

error=22 is EINVAL, because you have a space in the name.

error=63 is ENAMETOOLONG, because the name is longer than SPECNAMELEN (also 63 by coincidence).

__Martin

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