OpenFiler and Server 2008

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Cyberrad

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I built an OpenFiler NAS solution with iSCSI the other week and after transferring everything over a problem seemed to occur.:eek: After I mount the iSCSI volume, that I transfered all of my files to, to the same Windows Server 2008 machine the Disk Management utility seems to think that the disk is not formatted. Has anyone run into this before? Is there a way to recover this data?
 
The OpenFiler iscsi target is ancient and really doesn't work well with modern systems. Open-E is the best bet for a complete solution, assuming you can live with a 2tb target limit. Otherwise, you need to use LIO-Target or OpenSolaris.
 
lizardking009 said:
The OpenFiler iscsi target is ancient and really doesn't work well with modern systems. Open-E is the best bet for a complete solution, assuming you can live with a 2tb target limit. Otherwise, you need to use LIO-Target or OpenSolaris.
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Thanks for your input but this is the situation I am in.
 
Your files should be fine assuming you didn't overwrite things somehow, see if you can just mount the volume direct on OpenFiler.
 
keenan said:
Your files should be fine assuming you didn't overwrite things somehow, see if you can just mount the volume direct on OpenFiler.
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That's what I figured.

I'm new to OpenFiler... can you point me to where the steps are for doing this?
 
I don't use it myself, so not really. If you know the device name of the volume, create a mountpoint like /mnt/temp (mkdir /mnt/temp) and then try to mount it (mount /dev/mapper/foo-bar /mnt/temp) and see what happens.
 
Openfiler claims that the drive is already mounted or /mnt/temp busy. I unmapped it to the iscsi target and got the same results.
 
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