[illumos-Discuss] Heads up: iSCSI UNMAP support

Richard Elling Richard.Elling at Nexenta.com
Sun Mar 6 19:08:02 PST 2011


Congratulations Dan!
 -- richard
On Mar 4, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:

> The Illumos gate now has support for the UNMAP operation for iSCSI if the backing store is a ZFS zvol (raw/character device).  If your filesystem supports UNMAP (e.g. -o discrard with Linux EXT4), you'll see space reclamation on the zvol.
> 
> Thanks to original author Sumit Gupta (whose original code is in NS3.1), and Eric Schrock and George Wilson who provided ZFS help to this newbie.
> 
> Enjoy!
> Dan McD.
> 
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