Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive and locking

2010-11-04 Thread Byte Internet
The problem is not with how the replication is done. The locking happens during the basic zfs operations. We noticed: on server2 (which is quite busy serving maildirs) we did zfs create tank/newfs rsync 4GB from someotherserver to /tank/newfs zfs destroy tank/newfs Destroying newfs took more

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive and locking

2010-11-03 Thread Chris Mosetick
Sorry i'm not able to provide more insight but I thought some of the concepts in this article might help you, as well as Mike's replication script, also available on this page: http://blog.laspina.ca/ubiquitous/provisioning_disaster_recovery_with_zfs You also might want to look at InfraGeeks auto-

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive and locking

2010-11-02 Thread Byte Internet
Hello, We are trying to setup a pair of ZFS file servers, each backing-up data from another. The simplified setup is as follows: server1 tank/prod/web tank/backup/mail server2 tank/prod/mail tank/backup/web server1:tank/prod/web is a test setup with 10GB of data for 60 websites. server2:tank/p