Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with EMC PowerPath

2010-08-10 Thread Brian Kolaci
On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Cindy Swearingen wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Is the pool exported before the update/upgrade of PowerPath software? Yes, that's the standard procedure. > This recommended practice might help the resulting devices to be more > coherent. > > If the format utility sees the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with EMC PowerPath

2010-08-10 Thread Cindy Swearingen
Hi Brian, Is the pool exported before the update/upgrade of PowerPath software? This recommended practice might help the resulting devices to be more coherent. If the format utility sees the devices the same way as ZFS, then I don't see how ZFS can rename the devices. If the format utility s

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with EMC PowerPath

2010-08-09 Thread Brian Kolaci
On some machines running PowerPath, there's sometimes issues after an update/upgrade of the PowerPath software. Sometimes the pseudo devices get remapped and change names. ZFS appears to handle it OK, however sometimes it then references half native device names and half the emcpower pseudo d