Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Bonwick
bonus questions: any idea when hot spares will make it to S10? good question :) It'll be in U3, and probably available as patches for U2 as well. The reason for U2 patches is Thumper (x4500), because we want ZFS on Thumper to have hot spares and double-parity RAID-Z from day one. Jeff

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is, you dual-attach the storage with host A

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Richard Elling
Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jeff Victor
Richard Elling wrote: Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual active-passive arrangement. That is, you dual-attach the storage with host A talking to

Re: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Jim Dunham - Sun Microsystems
Richard Elling wrote: Danger Will Robinson... Jeff Victor wrote: Jeff Bonwick wrote: If one host failed I want to be able to do a manual mount on the other host. Multiple hosts writing to the same pool won't work, but you could indeed have two pools, one for each host, in a dual

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] sharing a storage array

2006-07-28 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Jeff, Friday, July 28, 2006, 4:21:42 PM, you wrote: JV Now that I've gone and read the zpool man page :-[ it seems that only whole JV disks can be exported/imported. No, it's not that way. If you create a pool from slices you'll be able to import/export only those slices. So if you