[Gluster-users] GlusterFS and iScsi target export

[Dan Lambright]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Atin Mukherjee" <amukherj at redhat.com>
> To: "Cong Yue" <Cong_Yue at alliedtelesis.com>, gluster-users at gluster.org
> Cc: "dlam >> Dan Lambright" <dlambrig at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 9:50:19 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gluster-users] GlusterFS and iScsi target export
> 
> CCing Dan as he has more insights on this.

Jon Heese's suggestion made sense to me (use the skip parameter): 

dd if=/dev/zero of=disk3 count=1 bs=1 skip=50G


> 
> ~Atin
> 
> On 04/14/2015 02:52 AM, Yue, Cong wrote:
> > I am using GlusterFS to make my storage between several servers can be
> > replicated with fault tolerance. And I am doing the similar way as
> > 
> > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_iSCSI
> > 
> > It works well, but in the process of
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=disk3 bs=2G count=25
> > 
> > it needs long time as for my storage volume is around 1TB. I have one
> > question about whether there is some way to make gluster volume can be
> > exported as an iScsi target without creating disk files?
> > For iscsi, it support both disk file and logical unit like /dev/sdb1, but
> > it seems it could not support normal folder like the mount folder from
> > glusterFS.
> > 
> > Can anybody kindly advise?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Cong
> > 
> > 
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