> > On Jan 26, 2007, at 7:17, Peter Eriksson wrote: > >> If you _boot_ the original machine then it should see that the pool > >> now is "owned" by > >> the other host and ignore it (you'd have to do a "zpool import -f" > >> again I think). Not tested though so don't take my word for it... > > > > Conceptually, that's about right, but in practice it's not quite as > > simple as that. We had to do a lot of work in Cluster to ensure that > > the zpool would never be imported on more than one node at a time. > > Did VxVM use hostid on disks to check where the disk groups were last > used, and won't automatically import groups with different id on disk. > Would something like this be hard to implement?
Yes, it does. There was a long thread on this not too long ago. Something similar will be added to ZFS. It won't be a full cluster solution, but it would aid in hand-failover situations like this. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
