Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive filehandle issue

2009-04-21 Thread Maurice Volaski
There was a prior discussion about doing HA-NFS by using zfs send/recv to replicate the failover system's independent storage, and the conclusion was that it wasn't doable because NFS needs identical fsids on both systems. But zfs send/recv generates a different fsid on the failover, and that r

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive filehandle issue

2008-09-09 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello Adrian, Thanks, i was using send/receive (that´s why i did put it on subject ;), and i did like to know if ZFS could have some solution for that as i said before. The send/receive is not an "exact" copy of the filesystem (creation time, fsid, etc) are different. So, the FH using that for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive filehandle issue

2008-09-08 Thread Adrian Ulrich
Hi Marcelo, > I did some tests with send/receive a filesystem from one node to another, > changing the IP from one node to the other, and got the FH issue (stale), > from a GNU/Linux client. How are you replicating the filesystems? zfs send | zfs recv ? This method will preserve the inodes bu

[zfs-discuss] ZFS send/receive filehandle issue

2008-09-08 Thread Marcelo Leal
Hello all, Some way to workaround the filehandle issue with a send/receive ZFS procedure? In the ZFS begining, i did a conversation with some of the devel guys, and did ask about how ZFS would treat the NFS filehandle.. IIRC, the answere was: "No problem, the NFS filehandle will not depend on t