On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tim Spriggs wrote: > The x4500 is very sweet and the only thing stopping us from buying two > instead of another shelf is the fact that we have lost pools on Sol10u3 > servers and there is no easy way of making two pools redundant (ie the > complexity of clustering.) Simply sending incremental snapshots is not a > viable option. > > The pools we lost were pools on iSCSI (in a mirrored config) and they > were mostly lost on zpool import/export. The lack of a recovery > mechanism really limits how much faith we can put into our data on ZFS. > It's safe as long as the pool is safe... but we've lost multiple pools.
Lost data doesn't give me a warm fuzzy 8-/. Were you running an officially supported version of Solaris at the time? If so, what did Sun support have to say about this issue? -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss