Carson Gaspar wrote:
> Let me drag this thread kicking and screaming back to ZFS...
>
> Use case:
>
> - We need an NFS server that can be replicated to another building to
> handle both scheduled powerdowns and unplanned outages. For scheduled
> powerdowns we'd want to fail over a week in advance, and fail back some
> time later.
>
For campus or metro sized systems, many people just use HA clusters.
The complexity level is similar and you automatically avoid the NFS
file handle problem. There is a lot of expertise in this area as NFS
is one of the most popular clustered services.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ha-clusters/
-- richard
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