Re: [zfs-discuss] Single SAN Lun presented to 4 Hosts

2007-08-28 Thread Charles DeBardeleben
Are you sure that UFS writes a-time on read-only filesystems? I do not think that it is supposed to. If it does, I think that this is a bug. I have mounted read-only media before, and not gotten any write errors. -Charles David Olsen wrote: >> On 27/08/2007, at 12:36 AM, Rainer J.H. Brandt wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] AVS replication vs ZFS send recieve for odd sized volume pairs

2007-05-22 Thread Charles DeBardeleben
For the moment, SolarisCluster 3.2 does not support using AVS replication within a cluster for failover of storage. We do support using storage based replication for failover data with high end Hitachi based storage. Also at this point SolarisCluster does not ship with support for zfs send. You co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q: recreate pool?

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Debardeleben
Note that you do not have to use the emcpower name to get the path redundancy of PowerPath. By default PowerPath layers in the cb_ops of the driver so that emcpower and all c#t#d# device entries for a LUN all go through PowerPath in the same way. I think the emc documentation refers to to this as

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS and Sun Cluster....

2006-05-30 Thread Charles Debardeleben
Re: Quorum and ZFS. PGR is a property of the scsi devices in the zpool, not a property of ZFS or the zpool. The same is true for SCSI 2 reserve/release protocol. The PGRE protocol requires a reserved part of the disk. However, this reserved part of the disk is reserved at the "label" level. While i

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Sun Cluster....

2006-05-30 Thread Charles Debardeleben
SunCluster will support ZFS in our 3.2 release of SunCluster, via the HAStoragePlus resource type. This support will be for failover use only, not scaleable or active-active applications. It will use the import|export stuff to do its work. It required code modifications to HAStoragePlus due to the