I'm looking for input on building an HA configuration for ZFS. I've read the FAQ and understand that the standard approach is to have a standby system with access to a shared pool that is imported during a failover.
The problem is that we use ZFS for a specialized purpose that results in 10's of thousands of filesystems (mostly snapshots and clones). All versions of Solaris and OpenSolaris that we've tested take a long time (> hour) to import that many filesystems. I've read about replication through AVS, but that also seems require an import during failover. We'd need something closer to an active-active configuration (even if the second active is only modified through replication). Or some way to greatly speedup imports. Any suggestions? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
