From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [212.224.123.68]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B8C17660C for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:56:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0263528A84 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:56:14 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (proxmox-new.maurer-it.com [94.136.29.106]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTPS id 340DD28A76 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:56:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by proxmox-new.maurer-it.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0A78446889; Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:56:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <65ecf123-1411-df36-f32b-50bec27ea26e@proxmox.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 06:56:11 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:94.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/94.0 Content-Language: en-US To: travis@wsor.net Cc: Proxmox VE development discussion References: <250ce9d4-6ff9-782e-e3c4-e7e933af7626@proxmox.com> From: Thomas Lamprecht In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL 0.201 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment NICE_REPLY_A -0.001 Looks like a legit reply (A) SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Subject: Re: [pve-devel] any plan for zfs over open-iscsi (linux)? X-BeenThere: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:56:14 -0000 On 18.10.21 20:09, Travis Osterman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 12:05 AM Thomas Lamprecht > On 18.10.21 04:04, Travis Osterman wrote: >>> I think the title says it all. I use open-iscsi for my SAN and wondered >>> whether there was a plan to support that the way LIO and IET are >> supported >>> within Proxmox. Neither LIO or IET are available for my linux >> distribution >>> and do not seem to be actively supported. >>> >>> I'm not a native perl coder but would happily be a tester for anyone >>> interested in this feature. If I'm alone, I may start trying to come up >>> with something. Thanks. >> >> I'm only waking up so excuse if I overlook something, but what's wrong >> with the non-user-mode iSCSI storage type of PVE? >> >> https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pvesm.html#storage_open_iscsi >> >> > That does, indeed, work fine. iSCSI over ZFS provides additional support > for quickly provisioning, snapshotting and rolling back images all through > the UI. From what I can see, proxmox connects to the NAS to issue the > commands to perform those functions. When I use the iSCSI (without ZFS), I > have access both proxmox and my NAS. Does that make sense? > Oh, it seems I just somehow missed the "zfs" part yesterday (local) morning.. As we already have the base support for the other target providers it can make sense to at least evaluate this and if no show-stoppers come up also integrate it into PVE. Can you please open a enhancement request over at: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/ Some more details regarding your SAN would be also nice to have in that request, if possible. cheers, Thomas