Re: [zfs-discuss] How to avoid striping ?

2010-10-18 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
Hi, Habony, Zsolt writes: > You have an application filesystem from one LUN. (vxfs is expensive, ufs/svm > is not really able to handle online filesystem increase. Thus we plan to use > zfs for application filesystems.) What do you mean by "not really"? Use metattach to grow a metadevice or sof

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

2007-08-26 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
David Hopwood writes: > Note also that mounting a filesystem read-only does not guarantee that > the disk will not be written, because of atime updates (this is arguably > a Unix design flaw, but still has to be taken into account). So r may I can mount with the -noatime option. > I don't understa

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

2007-08-26 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
Ronald, thanks for your comments. I was thinking about this scenario: Host w continuously has a UFS mounted with read/write access. Host w writes to the file f/ff/fff. Host w ceases to touch anything under f. Three hours later, host r mounts the file system read-only, reads f/ff/fff, and unmount

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

2007-08-26 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
Tim, thanks for answering... > > > > > > > ...but please don't send HTML, if possible. > > Try this explanation.. > > Host A mounts UFS file system rw > Hosts B-C mount sam UFS file system read only > > In natural scheme of things hosts B-C read files and cache > metadata about the

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

2007-08-26 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
Ronald Kuehn writes: > On Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 16:36:26 CEST, Rainer J.H. Brandt wrote: > > > Ronald Kuehn writes: > > > No. You can neither access ZFS nor UFS in that way. Only one > > > host can mount the file system at the same time (read/write or >

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

2007-08-26 Thread Rainer J.H. Brandt
Sorry, this is a bit off-topic, but anyway: Ronald Kuehn writes: > No. You can neither access ZFS nor UFS in that way. Only one > host can mount the file system at the same time (read/write or > read-only doesn't matter here). I can see why you wouldn't recommend trying this with UFS (only one ho