GEOM tasting iscsi zvols?

Wed Feb 29 14:59:27 UTC 2012

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 22:13:25 -0600, John <jwd at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
>    Is there a way to disable this that I've somehow missed?  man 4 GEOM
> mentions "tasting" and the logic around this operation. A google search
> shows a couple of similar questions - no discrete answers.

It does this for me as well -- 16 iSCSI luns get "tested" every time you  
restart istgt. It doesn't cause an issue here, though. Do you experience  
any problems? It really shouldn't cause any issues to have the GEOM layer  
peek into those zvols to see if there is anything it can use.