Brian Hechinger > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:47:04AM -0400, Moore, Joe wrote: > > > > I wonder if an AVS-replicated storage device on the > backends would be appropriate? > > > > write -> ZFS-mirrored slog -> ramdisk -AVS-> physical disk > > \ > > +-iscsi-> ramdisk -AVS-> physical disk > > > > You'd get the continuous replication of the ramdisk to > physical drive (and perhaps automagic recovery on reboot) but > not pay the syncronous write to remote physical disk penalty > > It looks like the answer is no. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo sndradm -e localhost > /dev/rramdisk/avstest1 /dev/zvol/rdsk/SYS0/bitmap1 > \wintermute /dev/zvol/dsk/SYS0/avstest2 > /dev/zvol/rdsk/SYS0/bitmap2 ip async > Enable Remote Mirror? (Y/N) [N]: y > sndradm: Error: both localhost and wintermute are local
I've not worked with AVS other than looking at the basic concepts, but to me this looks like a dont-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot critical warning rather than an actual functionality restriction. Is there a -force option to override this normally quite reasonable sanity check? --Joe _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
