Hi Tim, > I took a look at the archives and I have seen a few threads about > using > array block level snapshots with ZFS and how we face the "old issue" > that we used to see with logical volumes and unique IDs (quite > correctly) stopping the same volume being presented twice to the same > server. > > IHAC wanting to do this with a ZFS storage pool and an LSI array. All > works well when they present the array snapshot to hosts other than > the > one where the original zpool resides but (as expected) we cannot > import > the zpool on the array snapshot to the original host..though no error > message is issues, it just does not work. > > So, I am assuming that this is because the zpools have the same serial > number (happy to be corrected). > > My question is are there any RFEs that will enable a zpool's serial > number to be changed (if that is what is required to make this work).
http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=5097228 > It may be that this is an awful idea..in which case I am happy to hear > that as well and will feed that back to the customer. For both controller-based & host-based snapshots, replicas, even iSCSI LUs, this would be an awful [good] idea. :-) - Jim > > > Thanks > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
