ZFS and ISCSI

[Ronald Klop]

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 13:44:56 +0100, Ben Morrow <ben at morrow.me.uk> wrote:

> Quoth "Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists at klop.ws>:
>> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:59:39 +0100, Danny Schales <dan at latech.edu>  
>> wrote:
>> > On 12/18/13 01:20 PM, Ronald Klop wrote:
>> >
>> >> Maybe asking for the obvious, but...
>> >> Do your zfs volumes have mountpoint set?
>> >
>> > yes, mountpoint is set.
>>
>> You might also post more information about your setup. Like the
>> partitioning of your iscsi 'disks' (I don't have much experience with
>> that). And the actual values of things like your mountpoint and iscsi
>> config files.
>
> None of this information makes any difference: Danny's original analysis
> of the problem is correct. Any zpools which show up after /etc/rc.d/zfs
> has run will not be automatically mounted, they must be explicitly
> mounted with 'zfs mount -a'. This is expected behaviour, and how things
> are supposed to work, but noone had previously realised that iSCSI disks
> (and, presumably, any other networked block devices) necessarily fall
> into this category. The solution is a ZFS equivalent to
> /etc/rc.d/mountlate; I believe all it needs to contain is 'zfs mount
> -a', but ICBW.
>
> Ben

Ok

Regards,
Ronald.