Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Alpha Release

2007-10-20 Thread Lally Singh
Looks great.. Any (long-term distant-future) plans of integrating this with the Trusted Extensions for a real quick setup? With a check to make sure the key's password != the label, just to be sure :-P This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[zfs-discuss] distributed zfs

2007-10-20 Thread Ged
Can we we have a physical topolgy of: 1. many Web servers running ZFS 2.many File servers with JBODs running ZFS. i heard that this will be possible in the future, allow a single write peration to be locked across the many File servers. Yes -no ? This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] multi master replication

2007-10-20 Thread Ged
Multi master replication is when both computers are read and write basically. I meant this in the context of a Data center with one ZFS pool, and another data center with another. The idea being that you can keep the two in sync using Multi master replication. This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] multi master replication

2007-10-20 Thread Richard Elling
Ged wrote: Multi master replication is when both computers are read and write basically. I meant this in the context of a Data center with one ZFS pool, and another data center with another. The idea being that you can keep the two in sync using Multi master replication. Of course you

Re: [zfs-discuss] distributed zfs

2007-10-20 Thread Richard Elling
Ged wrote: Can we we have a physical topolgy of: 1. many Web servers running ZFS 2.many File servers with JBODs running ZFS. i heard that this will be possible in the future, allow a single write peration to be locked across the many File servers. Yes -no ? The simplest way to do

Re: [zfs-discuss] distributed zfs

2007-10-20 Thread Ged
Richard, I assume you mean. Multiple ZFS pools mapped to a singel File server, that then publishes the files over NFS to the web servers? Or do you mean Multiple ZFS Pools mapped to MANY File servers, that then expose the Files over NFS to the web servers. i am trying to work out what i can

[zfs-discuss] Distribued ZFS

2007-10-20 Thread Mertol Ozyoney
Hi Ged; At the moment ZFS is not a shared file system nor a paralell file system. However lustre integration which will take some time will provide parallel file system abilities. I am unsure if lustre at the moment supports redundancy between storage nodes (it was on the road map) But

Re: [zfs-discuss] Distribued ZFS

2007-10-20 Thread Vincent Fox
To my mind ZFS has a serious deficiency for JBOD usage in a high-availability clustered environment. Namely, inability to tie spare drives to a particular storage group. Example in clustering HA setups you would would want 2 SAS JBOD units and mirror between them. In this way if a chassis

[zfs-discuss] Sequential vs Random I/O on array controller for ZFS usage

2007-10-20 Thread Vincent Fox
We had a Sun Engineer on-site recently who said this: We should set our array controllers to sequential I/O *even* if we are doing random I/O if we are using ZFS. This is because the Arc cache is already grouping requests up sequentially so to the array controller it will appear like

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mounting ZFS Pool to a different server

2007-10-20 Thread Vincent Fox
Yes we do this currently on some systems where we haven't had time to install and test Cluster software. Even old 3310 array can be setup so 2 servers have storage visible. We export pool on one system and import it on the other, move over a virtual IP and the service is back up. You

[zfs-discuss] Did ZFS boot/root make it into Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 ?

2007-10-20 Thread Carl Brewer
As the subject says - a quick grovel around didn't say that zfs boot/root had made it into SEDE 9/07, before I download it and try, can anyone save me the bandwidth? Thanks! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Did ZFS boot/root make it into Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 ?

2007-10-20 Thread Albert Lee
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Ian Collins wrote: Carl Brewer wrote: As the subject says - a quick grovel around didn't say that zfs boot/root had made it into SEDE 9/07, before I download it and try, can anyone save me the bandwidth? Thanks! It didn't. It still isn't supported by the installer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Distribued ZFS

2007-10-20 Thread Richard Elling
Vincent Fox wrote: To my mind ZFS has a serious deficiency for JBOD usage in a high-availability clustered environment. I don't agree. Namely, inability to tie spare drives to a particular storage group. Example in clustering HA setups you would would want 2 SAS JBOD units and mirror