> You'll have to solve this issue by using multiple ZFS > servers so that the number of filesystems per server is a reasonably > good fit with ZFS' current capabilities. OTOH ZFS is improving in > this arena over time and, even with multiple servers, ZFS will still > provide a cost effective solution. In any case, with 5 ZFS > servers, would it not be better to have only 20% of your user community > affected if a server were to have a catastrophic failure? (rhetorical > question)
Of course we are going to have several servers, but we were hoping to be able to share all the folders from one at a time. We want to use the mirroring capabilities in ZFS to take disk from two san's in different buildings, and mirror them up in the zfs pool. We will also have a second server in another building ready to do an import of the pool, highjack the IP and share the files. This way we would be safe in case of san failure, server failure and problems in one of the buildings. It all cooks down to if ZFS is capable of sharing this amount of filesystemes on one server though. If it takes a week to make the filesystems, and hours to boot the server (an I guess importing the pool on the other server), that would be a big drawback... > You won't get any "official" input on Solaris (the > commercial product) related topics on this list - which is dedicated to > OpenSolaris. But, to give you something that resembles an answer, Sol10 > Update 6 is based on Build 88 AFAIR. So looking at the > features/performance of that release will give you a good feel for Sol 10U6 > .. the usual disclaimers YMMV etc. I know OpenSolaris is not officially supported by SUN in any way, but most of the development seems to be going on for OpenSolaris, and then gets implemented into Solaris when it's stable and ready. This is why I wanted comments on the status of this in this forum. I was hoping for some reassuring that this would be ok in the upcoming release of Solaris :) Today it's 30. Oct, and sun.com still says "Note: Solaris 10 10/08 availability is planned for the end of October.". I am waiting in anticipation, and can't wait to test this out in the new release :) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
