can zfs snapshot be used to back LUN in ctl.conf ?

[Zeus Panchenko]

Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl> wrote:
> > istgt do allows that, while ctld fails to start and complains
> > 
> > but if I copy the file from zfs snapshot to some place, then ctld starts
> > as expected ...
> 
> As far as I know those snapshots are read-only.

yes, and it is just what I want

> So other that mount and use for reading backup stuff it does not really
> serve a purpose?

file is NTFS volume, I need to provide it to win host ... ctld refuses
to do that even in ro mode :(


> And than still you'd next a "consistent" fs on the
> volume to do any useful work. So that would only work for filesystems
> that need a recover that does not involve writing to the volume.

yes, no writing ... just reading ... and I wonder why istgt was doing
that fine but ctld refuses :(

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Zeus V. Panchenko				jid:zeus at im.ibs.dn.ua
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