Where are the machines stored in ZFS pool?

[Alternativende]

Hello community,
i have a silly sounding question, but when using a ZFS-pool where do i find the actual virtual hard drive file? Under which path?

Well maybe im blind, but i have a zfs-pool and i couldn´t find the vmdisk on /NAMEOFZPOOL/.
/var/lib/vz/images is empty.

Can someone give me a hint?

Greetings

 

[aaron]

VM disks on ZFS are not stored in a filesystem dataset but in datasets of the type volume. Those provide a block device. Therefore they do not show up in the filesystem.

You can see them by running zfs list and will notice that they lack a mount point. They are exposed as block device in /dev/zdX. Since a numercial ID is hard to match against the actual dataset, you have symlinks in /dev/zvol/<pool>/... which you can see with ls -l /dev/zvol/<pool>/

I hope this clears it up a bit

 

[Dunuin]

Or in short: There are no files, because those virtual disks aren't part of any filesystem. If you want a file for backup reasons you could create an image file of those zvols, the same way you would do it if you want to create a block level copy of a real physical disk.