Morten-Christian Bernson wrote:
>> 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 :)
OpenSolaris (as a distribution) is ABSOLUTELY supported by Sun. Take a
look at the datasheet from opensolaris.com and sun.com
http://www.opensolaris.com/opensolaris_datasheet.pdf
http://www.sun.com/service/opensolaris/index.jsp
-Phil
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