On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:20:14AM -0800, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > The basic idea was to have a zfs mirror of each iscsi disk on > scsi-attached disks, so that in case of another panic of the SAN, > everything should still work on the scsi-attached disks.
> My questions are: > - is this a good idea? it's a better idea than just trusting your flaky SAN. > - should I use zfs mirrors or normal solaris mirrors? ZFS gives you the big advantage of on-the-fly data checksumming; that's very helpful compared to disksuite mirrors. > - is mirroring the best performance, or should I use zfs raid-z? mirroring is almost always going to give you the best performance. > - is there any other possibility I don't see? call the comcast hammer lady [1] and ask her to come take care of your SAN. > - The SAN includes 2 Sun-Solaris-10 machines, and 3 windows > machines....is there any similar solution on the win machines? none that i'm aware of; windows does have software mirroring, of course. Make lots of backups :). danno -- Dan Pritts, System Administrator Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 [1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/17/AR2007101702359.html _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
