On Dec 8, 2006, at 05:20, Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
Hello ZFS Experts
I have two ZFS pools zpool1 and zpool2
I am trying to create bunch of zvols such that their paths are
similar except for consisent number scheme without reference to the
zpools that actually belong. (This will allow me
I am already using symlinks.
But the problem is the ZFS framework won't know about them .
I would expect something like this from ZVOL specially abstracting the
poolname path from zvol.
Specially since many database will store the path names in their
metadata and is hard to change later on.
Jignesh K. Shah wrote:
I am already using symlinks.
But the problem is the ZFS framework won't know about them .
Can you explain how this knowledge would benefit the combination
of ZFS and databases? There may be something we could leverage here.
I would expect something like this from ZVOL
The way I see it benefits is because it will mean less stray threads
which is what I would call symlinks.
Say if the mount option for zvols are used to define that purpose, ZFS
metadata will always know how it is really being used. Also if someday
we come up with the framework to dump the
Hello ZFS Experts
I have two ZFS pools zpool1 and zpool2
I am trying to create bunch of zvols such that their paths are similar except for consisent number
scheme without reference to the zpools that actually belong. (This will allow me to have common
references in my setup scripts)
If I
