busy dataset when trying the migrate iscsi disk

Lorne Guse boomshankerx at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 17 19:47:25 CEST 2025


Ironically the patch version of the plugin actually utilizes the native Proxmox code in ZFSPlugin.pm / ZFSPoolPlugin.pm for managed the zvol dataset. The patch version only manages the iSCSI configuration.

I think the best course is to consider the patch version legacy and focus on the new fully API driven Custom Storage Plugin.

TrueNAS indicated there are plans to implement some form of UI hooks for Custom Storage Plugins. This is very encouraging.
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From: Max R. Carrara <m.carrara at proxmox.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 6:04 AM
To: Lorne Guse <boomshankerx at hotmail.com>; Proxmox VE development discussion <pve-devel at lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: busy dataset when trying the migrate iscsi disk

On Mon Sep 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM CEST, Lorne Guse wrote:
> I'm working on TrueNAS over iSCSI for Proxmox and have run into an issue migrating disks. When trying to delete the old storage, which has just successfully been transfered, the iscsidirect connection must remain open because we are getting:
>
> cannot destroy 'slow/vm-188-disk-0': dataset is busy
>
> Is there a way to ensure the iscsidirect connection is closed before trying to delete the underlying zfs dataset?

Hi Lorne! Glad to see you on the mailing list!

I've sifted around our code to see how we handle this, and it seems that
we're simply retrying a couple of times until the dataset is actually
deleted [0]. I think that might be your best bet, though if you find an
alternative, I'd be curious to know.

[0]: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgit.proxmox.com%2F%3Fp%3Dpve-storage.git%3Ba%3Dblob%3Bf%3Dsrc%2FPVE%2FStorage%2FZFSPoolPlugin.pm%3Bh%3Dd8d8d0f9fc1cc6f1a02d8f5800c388b355609bf5%3Bhb%3Drefs%2Fheads%2Fmaster%23l362&data=05%7C02%7C%7C08ddb2ac62744e0c4a2908ddf5e259ac%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638937074705932603%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dV3Ch024RrnvSKKDsT4k1zP23S%2BCX9jFR6YISZ5Lpe0%3D&reserved=0<https://git.proxmox.com/?p=pve-storage.git;a=blob;f=src/PVE/Storage/ZFSPoolPlugin.pm;h=d8d8d0f9fc1cc6f1a02d8f5800c388b355609bf5;hb=refs/heads/master#l362>




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