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?


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