Matt Beebe wrote: > 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?
Correct. > In this scenario, my replication hasn't really bought me any increased > availablity... or am I missing something? No. You have an increase of availability when the entire primary node goes down, but you're not particularly safer when it comes to decreased zpools. > 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?? I have not tested this scenario, so I can't say anything about this. -- Ralf Ramge Senior Solaris Administrator, SCNA, SCSA Tel. +49-721-91374-3963 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://web.de/ 1&1 Internet AG Brauerstraße 48 76135 Karlsruhe Amtsgericht Montabaur HRB 6484 Vorstand: Henning Ahlert, Ralph Dommermuth, Matthias Ehrlich, Thomas Gottschlich, Matthias Greve, Robert Hoffmann, Markus Huhn, Oliver Mauss, Achim Weiss Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Michael Scheeren _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
