Hi Nils, the 2 main reasons I can remember: - fssnap takes time, maybe too much - which could lead to all sorts of problems - fssnap does not survive a failover; although I could have lived with this restriction.
And it has never been really tested, as far as I know. Regards hartmut Nils Goroll schrieb: > Hi All, > > could anyone give me a brief summary of the technical reasons why UFS > snapshots are not supported in cluster? > > Some reasons I could imagine: > - The PxFS layer is incompatible with UFS snapshots (does not sound > likely?!?) > - failover of the PxFS master conflicts with snapshots > - issues with HAStoragePlus > > Any of the above? Anything else? > > A rough sketch of what would need to be done to support UFS snapshots > would be ideal. > > Thanks, Nils > _______________________________________________ > ha-clusters-discuss mailing list > ha-clusters-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ha-clusters-discuss -- Sun Microsystems GmbH Hartmut Streppel Sonnenallee 1 Systems Practice D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Phone: +49 (0)89 46008 2563 Germany Mobile: +49 (0)172 8919711 http://www.sun.de FAX: +49 (0)89 46008 2572 mailto: hartmut.streppel at sun.com My BLOG: http://blogs.sun.com/Hartmut Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht M?nchen: HRB 161028 Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Thomas Schr?der, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin H?ring
