[OmniOS-discuss] create-lu /dev/zvol/dsk or /dev/zvol/rdsk

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Tue Nov 1 16:44:29 UTC 2016


> On Nov 1, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Manuel Oetiker <manuel at oetiker.ch> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I noticed, that I not always created my iscsi views on the rdsk device.
> sometime I used the dsk device for the view
> 
> 600144f0888c0f000000571fece40008  161061273600         /dev/zvol/dsk/ssd-a/iscsi/xfe/disk-00
> 600144f0888c0f00000057308b55000c  85899345920          /dev/zvol/rdsk/ssd-a/iscsi/xde/disk-00
> 
> does this has some bad implications? should
> I change all views to rdsk?

I'm not sure if for ZVOLs there's an underlying difference between raw and not.  I'd be cautious, though, and try and unify whichever one you use.

Dan



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