how to access ZFS snapshot via iSCSI

Gezeala M. Bacuño II gezeala at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 12:53:06 UTC 2012


On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Zeus Panchenko <zeus at ibs.dn.ua> wrote:
> Gezeala M. Bacuño II <gezeala at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > does it mean, I have no way to give access to the very snapshot, as if I
>> > manipulate the snapshot locally by cp/mv/cmp e.t.c. commands?
>> >
>> > may I do that with zfs rather than with zvol?
>>
>> The recommended way of accessing snapshots is by cloning it.
>> or
>> cd /your-pool/your-fs-with-snapshot/.zfs/snapshot
>> ls -ls
>>
>> If your filesystem or volume has snapshots you should see them. Take
>> note that everything is read-only.
>>
>
> I do can access snapshots locally, what am I asking about is can I give
> access to snapshots via network? via iSCSI, NFS or SAMBA ...
>
> since attempt to share snapshot via iSCSI leads to the error messages I
> have posted in the first post
>

Did you clone your snapshot like what I've suggested in my first post?


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