Hello Cyril,
Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:41:37 PM, you wrote:
CP> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> It's more than a handy feature. You either have to write down all
>> the ZFS configuration you do, or keep a separate log of it in order
>> to restore a backed up ZFS system to a bare metal replacement today.
>>
>> With this RFE, you could replay the configuration, restore from tape
>> and be back up pretty quickly with the same setup you had.
CP> Mark,
CP> you don't need to convince me - I am absolutely in favor of this feature.
CP> However, I have a friendly comment on that "quick" part: don't you
CP> think that it takes significantly more time to load your valuable data
CP> from tapes back to disks, than zpool creation, whether manual or
CP> automated ?
As I wrote before - it's not only about RAID config - what if you have
hundreds of file systems, with some share{nfs|iscsi|cifs) enabled with
specific parameters, then specific file system options, etc.
With legacy file systems all you needed was to have a copy of
/etc/vfstab and your raid config.
--
Best regards,
Robert Milkowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://milek.blogspot.com
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