Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jeff, Friday, July 28, 2006, 4:21:42 PM, you wrote: JV> Now that I've gone and read the zpool man page :-[ it seems that only whole JV> disks can be exported/imported. No, it's not that way. If you create a pool from slices you'll be able to import/export only those slices. So if you w

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Dunham - Sun Microsystems
Richard Elling wrote: Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Richard Elling wrote: Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is, you dual-attach the storage with host A talking to p

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is, you dual-attach the storage with host A tal

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread James Dickens
On 7/28/06, Jeff Bonwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a SAS array with a zfs pool on it. zfs automatically searches for > and mounts the zfs pool I've created there. I want to attach another > host to this array, but it doesn't have any provision for zones or the > like. (Like you would

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> I have a SAS array with a zfs pool on it. zfs automatically searches for > and mounts the zfs pool I've created there. I want to attach another > host to this array, but it doesn't have any provision for zones or the > like. (Like you would find in an FC array or in the switch infrastructure.)

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Bonwick
> > bonus questions: any idea when hot spares will make it to S10? > > good question :) It'll be in U3, and probably available as patches for U2 as well. The reason for U2 patches is Thumper (x4500), because we want ZFS on Thumper to have hot spares and double-parity RAID-Z from day one. Jeff _

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:41:10PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > On July 28, 2006 11:59:50 AM +1000 grant beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >ZFS won't automatically import a pool unless it is explicitly exported > >first via "zfs export", so it should be safe to do this, but it has to > >be

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread Frank Cusack
On July 28, 2006 11:59:50 AM +1000 grant beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ZFS won't automatically import a pool unless it is explicitly exported first via "zfs export", so it should be safe to do this, but it has to be done at the pool level, not the filesystem level. Just to clarify, that w

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread grant beattie
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 06:35:06PM -0700, Frank Cusack wrote: > Hi > > I have a SAS array with a zfs pool on it. zfs automatically searches for > and mounts the zfs pool I've created there. I want to attach another > host to this array, but it doesn't have any provision for zones or the > like.

[zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-27 Thread Frank Cusack
Hi I have a SAS array with a zfs pool on it. zfs automatically searches for and mounts the zfs pool I've created there. I want to attach another host to this array, but it doesn't have any provision for zones or the like. (Like you would find in an FC array or in the switch infrastructure.) W