ZFS over iSCSI: VM-creation fails

shh

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Hello,
I't trying to get ZFS-over-iSCSI running. Proxmox 8.2.4, all (free) updates.
All seems to be setup correctly, however when I start the VM creation it fails:
Code:
stopped: unable to create VM 100 - Could not open /dev/data/iscsi/vm-100-disk-0
But, the zvol was created correctly in /dev/zvol/data/iscsi/vm-100-disk-0
and Proxmox is searching at the wrong place: My system doesn't have a /dev/data/ path!
Code:
/etc/pve/storage.cfg
...
zfs: zfs-over-iscsi
    blocksize 16k
    iscsiprovider LIO
    pool data/iscsi
    portal 10.70.5.11
    target iqn.2003-01.org.linux-iscsi.HostName.xNUMBERS:sn.SERIAL
    content images
    lio_tpg tpg1
    nowritecache 1
    sparse 1
Code:
# zfs list
NAME                       USED  AVAIL  REFER  MOUNTPOINT
data                      6.18M  4.24T   224K  /data
data/iscsi                 304K  4.24T   192K  /data/iscsi
data/iscsi/vm-100-disk-0   112K  4.24T   112K  -
rpool                     7.62G   172G   104K  /rpool
rpool/ROOT                4.27G   172G    96K  /rpool/ROOT
rpool/ROOT/pve-1          4.27G   172G  4.27G  /
rpool/data                  96K   172G    96K  /rpool/data
rpool/var-lib-vz          3.26G   172G  3.26G  /var/lib/vz

Any ideas why Proxmox is using a wrong path for the zvol?
And how I can correct this?

Best regards...
 
Try symlinking /dev/zvol/data to /dev/data. IIRC, this is a platform specific problem.

EDIT: May be a duplicate of this.
 
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> EDIT: May be a duplicate of this.

Yes!
Symlink helped, thanks! But this doesn't survive a reboot I guess.

- Proxmox 8.1.10: Same problem, no pool at /dev/
- Std-Debian with ZFS: no pools at /dev/
- Even Solaris/OmniOS doesn't link the pools to /dev/
This should be considered a bug. :confused:
 

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