Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread John Levon
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 02:16:01PM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > I am wondering whether the reliability of solaris/zfs is still guaranteed if > I will be running zfs not directly over real hardware, but over Xen > virtualization ? The plan is to assign physical raw access to the disks to > the xen g

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread Joseph Mocker
Blake wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Ahmed Kamal > wrote: However, if you need to decide, whether to use Xen, test your setup before going into production and ask your boss, whether he can live with innovat

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread Blake
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Ahmed Kamal < email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com> wrote: > However, if you need to decide, whether to use Xen, test your setup >> before going into production and ask your boss, whether he can live with >> innovative ... solutions ;-) >> > > Thanks a lot for the infor

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-22 Thread Ahmed Kamal
> > However, if you need to decide, whether to use Xen, test your setup > before going into production and ask your boss, whether he can live with > innovative ... solutions ;-) > Thanks a lot for the informative reply. It has been definitely helpful I am however interested in the reliability of r

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-21 Thread Jens Elkner
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:06:49AM +0300, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >Is anyone even using ZFS under Xen in production in some form. If so, > what's >your impression of reliability ? Hmm, somebody needs to out itself. Short answer: yes. Details: Well, i've installed an IntelServer (2x QuadCore E

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-19 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Ahmed Kamal wrote: > Is anyone even using ZFS under Xen in production in some form. If so, what's > your impression of reliability ? I'm using zfs-fuse on Linux domU on top of LVM on Linux dom0/Xen 3.1. Not exactly a recommended configuration, but it works, no pro

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-19 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Is anyone even using ZFS under Xen in production in some form. If so, what's your impression of reliability ? Regards On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Ahmed Kamal < email.ahmedka...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi zfs gurus, > > I am wondering whether the reliability of solaris/zfs is still guarantee

[zfs-discuss] zfs reliability under xen

2009-05-17 Thread Ahmed Kamal
Hi zfs gurus, I am wondering whether the reliability of solaris/zfs is still guaranteed if I will be running zfs not directly over real hardware, but over Xen virtualization ? The plan is to assign physical raw access to the disks to the xen guest. I remember zfs having problems with hardware that