On Nevada, use the 'cachefile' property. On S10 releases, use '-R /' when creating/importing the pool.
- Eric On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:16:03PM -0400, Chris Siebenmann wrote: > Is there any way to set ZFS on a system so that it will not > automatically import all of the ZFS pools it had active when it was last > running? > > The problem with automatic importation is preventing disasters in a > failover situation. Assume that you have a SAN environment with the same > disks visible to system A and system B. If system A loses power (or > otherwise goes down) with ZFS pools live, you 'zpool import -f' them on > system B to get them available again, and system A comes back up, system > A will happily import the pools too, despite them being in use on system > B. > > (And then there are explosions. Bad explosions. You will probably lose > pools hard, per my previous email.) > > - cks > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Eric Schrock, Fishworks http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
