Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread Frank Cusack
On September 14, 2006 1:25:01 AM +0200 Daniel Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to clear some things up. The OP who started the whole discussion would have had the same problems with VxVM as he has now with ZFS. If you force an import of a disk group on one host while it is still active on a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread Daniel Rock
Anton B. Rang schrieb: The hostid solution that VxVM uses would catch this second problem, > because when A came up after its reboot, it would find that -- even > though it had created the pool -- it was not the last machine to access > it, and could refuse to automatically mount it. If the admi

[zfs-discuss] Re: Comments on a ZFS multiple use of a pool, RFE.

2006-09-13 Thread Anton B. Rang
I think there are at least two separate issues here. The first is that ZFS doesn't support multiple hosts accessing the same pool. That's simply a matter of telling people. UFS doesn't support multiple hosts, but it doesn't have any special features to prevent administrators from *trying* it. T