On Fri, 2013-12-13 at 02:29 +0100, Henrik Goldman wrote: > Hello, > > So lets assume the situation that you create an image file using > targetcli and export this using FILEIO to ESXi. When you format the > volume inside VMware then everything is fine and works well... > > Now repeat the same thing but instead of an image you create the image > based on the device e.g. /dev/md0 (for mdadm raid). Theoretically this > should work as well since targetcli says everything is ok. > However the reality is that VMware spits out error messages during the > format of the disk. > Care to include to dmesg output on the target side when this occurs..? > Am I missing something or should the two scenarios work the same way? > Yes, however following bugfix wrt FILEIO + struct block_device export was included in v3.10-rc3 code, and CC'ed to stable for all kernels back to v3.5. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e3e84cda321703b123f36488f50700f371bc7230 Please confirm this particular patch has been applied to the kernel in question. --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe target-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
