Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread justin
Have you looked at AVS? (http://opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Well, I got it working, but not in a tidy way. I'm running HA-ZFS here, so I moved the ZFS pool over to the other node in the cluster. That had exactly the same problems however, the iSCSI disks were unavailable. Then I found an article from November 2006 (http://web.ivy.net/~carton/oneNightO

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Well 5 minutes after posting that the resilver completed. However despite it saying that the "resilver completed with 0 errors" ten minutes ago, the device still shows as unavailable, and my pool is still degraded. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-11 Thread Ross
Found my first problems with this today. The ZFS mirror appears to work fine, but if you disconnect one of the iSCSI targets it hangs for 5 mins or more. I'm also seeing very concerning behaviour when attempting to re-attach the missing disk. My test scenario is: - Two 35GB iSCSI targets are

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Ross
Heh, it might have been me who suggested that. I'm testing the idea out at the moment, but being new to Solaris it's taking some time. So far I've confirmed that you can import iSCSI volumes to ZFS fine, but you need to use static discovery. If you use sendtargets, it breaks when devices go o

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
J.P. King wrote: >> Remember to also deploy IPsec to protect the iSCSI traffic. You want at >> least IPsec with AH to get integrity protection on the wire and for cross >> site you likely what ESP+Auth as well. > > How will this help given dark fibre between the sites? I'm not doing this > ov

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 Şubat 2008 Cuma 13:42 To: J.P. King Cc: Mertol Ozyoney; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring J.P. King wrote: >> I think I have heard something called dirty time logging being implemented >> in ZFS. > > Than

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Victor Latushkin
J.P. King wrote: >> I think I have heard something called dirty time logging being implemented >> in ZFS. > > Thanks for the pointer. Certainly interesting, but according to the > talks/emails I've found a month or so ago ZFS "will offer" this, so I am > guessing it isn't there yet, and certain

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread J.P. King
> I think I have heard something called dirty time logging being implemented > in ZFS. Thanks for the pointer. Certainly interesting, but according to the talks/emails I've found a month or so ago ZFS "will offer" this, so I am guessing it isn't there yet, and certainly not in a released versi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread J.P. King
> Remember to also deploy IPsec to protect the iSCSI traffic. You want at > least IPsec with AH to get integrity protection on the wire and for cross > site you likely what ESP+Auth as well. How will this help given dark fibre between the sites? I'm not doing this over a public internet! >

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
J.P. King wrote: > Someone suggested an idea, which the more I think about the less insane it > sounds. I thought I would ask the assembled masses to see if anyone had > tried anything like this, and how successful they had been. > > I'll start with the simplest variant of the solution, but the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J.P. King Sent: 08 Şubat 2008 Cuma 10:26 To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: [zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring Someone suggested an idea, which the more I think about the less insane it sounds. I thought I would ask the assembled masses to see

[zfs-discuss] Real time mirroring

2008-02-08 Thread J.P. King
Someone suggested an idea, which the more I think about the less insane it sounds. I thought I would ask the assembled masses to see if anyone had tried anything like this, and how successful they had been. I'll start with the simplest variant of the solution, but there are potentially subtle