Just to clarify a few items... consider a setup where we desire to use AVS to replicate the ZFS pool on a 4 drive server to like hardware. The 4 drives are setup as RaidZ.
If we lose a drive (say #2) in the primary server, RaidZ will take over, and our data will still be "available" but the array is at a degraded state. But what happens to the secondary server? Specifically to its bit-for-bit copy of Drive #2... presumably it is still good, but ZFS will offline that disk on the primary server, replicate the metadata, and when/if I "promote" the seconday server, it will also be running in a degraded state (ie: 3 out of 4 drives). correct? In this scenario, my replication hasn't really bought me any increased availablity... or am I missing something? Also, if I do chose to fail over to the secondary, can I just to a scrub the "broken" drive (which isn't really broken, but the zpool would be inconsistent at some level with the other "online" drives) and get back to "full speed" quickly? or will I always have to wait until one of the servers resilvers itself (from scratch?), and re-replicates itself?? thanks in advance. -Matt -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
