[OpenIndiana-discuss] Disappearing comstar luns?

Chris Ridd chrisridd at mac.com
Fri Dec 9 15:59:28 UTC 2011


On 9 Dec 2011, at 15:23, Chris Ridd wrote:

> 
> On 8 Oct 2011, at 01:45, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
> 
>> So I have 3 iscsi luns (based on files) for 3 windows 7 boxes.  I use them
>> for backup via win7 backup tool.  Two of the luns are infrequently used
>> (every few weeks.)  I've noticed when the person with the laptop comes over,
>> and I look at their disks, the iscsi "local disk" is not connected.  I then
>> do ' stmfadm list-lu -v' and I see that the missing ones are showing as
>> defined but unregistered, and I have to do ' stmfadm import-lu FILENAME' and
>> voila it's back.  Any idea why this might be happening?  Thanks...
> 
> I've just noticed that since upgrading from 148 to 151a, 8 of my iSCSI LUNs have vanished, along with their 2 targets. So it isn't just you, Dan.
> 
> I can see some evidence of them in the properties of the stmf service, and like Dan, stmfadm list-lu -v shows them as unregistered.
> 
> The underlying zvols are still present and (I assume) correct in /dev/zvol/rdsk/blah/blah.
> 
> Is the FILENAME you use with import-lu the /dev/zvol/rdsk/... volume device?

Excuse the self-reply, but I used /dev/zvol/rdsk/... and they seemed to import OK. I couldn't see a clean way to restore the iSCSI target and target group setup :-(

Chris



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