From: Bart C. <bar...@te...> - 2010-05-24 19:01:15
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On Monday 24 May 2010 20:46:14 Luca Berra wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 06:05:41PM +0200, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > >Le Mon, 24 May 2010 17:52:51 +0200 vous écriviez: > >> Would it be correct to state that you could stop the LUN, mount the > >> partition locally and see all the files? In other words does > >> iscsitarget just add a layer for iSCSI transport and does it leave > >> the lower storage untouched? > > > >Absolutely correct. If you repartition the LV from the initiator side > >however, you'll probably have trouble accessing those subdevices. > > you can use kpartx on the host to create device-mapper maps for > partitions on the lv, tough. > Excellent, does anyone know if the LUN should temporarely be stopped/disabled before taking the snapshot? My assumption is that if no one is accessing the LUN (initiator is a Xen dom0 which has shut down the guest on the LUN), it can be safely done. thx! |