On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Jonathan Loran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> > This guy seems to have had lots of fun with iSCSI :)
> > http://web.ivy.net/~carton/oneNightOfWork/20061119-carton.html<http://web.ivy.net/%7Ecarton/oneNightOfWork/20061119-carton.html>
> >
> >
> This is scaring the heck out of me.  I have a project to create a zpool
> mirror out of two iSCSI targets, and if the failure of one of them will
> panic my system, that will be totally unacceptable.  What's the point of
> having an HA mirror if one side can't fail without busting the host.  Is
> it really true that as the guy on the above link states (Please read the
> link, sorry) when one iSCSI mirror goes off line, the initiator system
> will panic?  Or even worse, not boot its self cleanly after such a
> panic?  How could this be?  Anyone else with experience with iSCSI based
> ZFS mirrors?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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Crazy question here... but has anyone tried this with say, a QLogic hardware
iSCSI card?  Seems like it would solve all your issues.  Granted, they
aren't free like the software stack, but if you're trying to setup an HA
solution, the ~$800 price tag per card seems pretty darn reasonable to me.
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