[pve-devel] FreeNAS storage plugin

Michael Rasmussen mir at datanom.net
Fri May 26 23:14:39 CEST 2017


The plugin will provide zfs over iscsi. For containers via nfs you can just use the current nfs in freenas.

On May 26, 2017 10:53:33 PM GMT+02:00, Andreas Steinel <a.steinel at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi mir,
>
>I'd really love to have ZFS-over-NFS for containers. I'd like to
>assist if you like and if you can explain how you setup your test
>environment.
>
>Best,
>Andreas Steinel
>(LnxBil)
>
>On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:20 PM, Michael Rasmussen <mir at datanom.net>
>wrote:
>> Yes, I intend to upstream this plugin.
>>
>> On May 26, 2017 9:09:33 AM GMT+02:00, "Fabian Grünbichler"
><f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:
>>>On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 12:58:28PM +0200, datanom.net wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have started developing a storage plugin for FreeNAS which uses
>the
>>>> FreeNAS REST API.
>>>> I have tested this using a combination of Postman, iscsi_discovery,
>>>and
>>>> iscsi-inq and everything seems to work perfectly. Using the REST
>API
>>>also
>>>> circumvent the limitations in CLD because with the API you create a
>>>target
>>>> group for every VM which can hold up to 25 LUNs (I think 25 LUNs
>for
>>>each VM
>>>> is sufficient).
>>>>
>>>> In stead of extending the current ZFS_over_iSCSI plugin I would
>>>prefer
>>>> making a stand-alone plugin named FreeNAS. Any objection to this
>>>decision?
>>>
>>>if you do all the operations (like create a snapshot, allocate a
>>>volume,
>>>...) over the REST API, shoe-horning that into the existing
>>>ZFS-over-SSH approach of the ZFS-over-iSCSI plugin does not make much
>>>sense IMHO ;)
>>>
>>>is your plan to upstream this, or will you just publish it as custom
>>>storage plugin?
>>>
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