Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] ZFS shared /home between zones

2008-01-03 Thread Steve McKinty
In general you should not allow a Solaris system to be both an NFS server and NFS client for the same filesystem, irrespective of whether zones are involved. Among other problems, you can run into kernel deadlocks in some (rare) circumstances. This is documented in the NFS administration docs. A

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with array-level block replication (TrueCopy, SRDF, etc.)

2007-12-17 Thread Steve McKinty
Hi all, Thanks for the replies. To clear up one issue, when I mentioned snapshots, I [i]was[/i] talking about snapshots performed by the array and/or replication software. In order to take a ZFS snapshot I would need access to the secondary copies of the data, and that is not generally possibl

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with array-level block replication (TrueCopy, SRDF, etc.)

2007-12-13 Thread Steve McKinty
I have a couple of questions and concerns about using ZFS in an environment where the underlying LUNs are replicated at a block level using products like HDS TrueCopy or EMC SRDF. Apologies in advance for the length, but I wanted the explanation to be clear. (I do realise that there are other