On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:16 AM, 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.
What you need is in Nevada and is coming to s10u6: http://blogs.sun.com/erickustarz/en_US/entry/poor_man_s_cluster_end eric _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
