Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-17 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: I don't understand what you mean by Odd requirement to update /etc/vfstab - when we turn on mpxio the device paths change, so any fs that's not ZFS will require repointing, as it were. One of the issues I've come It was a design choice to

[zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread Arif Khan
Hi Guys, Can I use MPXIO/STMS with ZFS to do multipathing amount pools/devices ? Any issues, any specific version of STMS to avoid/use ? Thanks Arif ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Arif Khan wrote: Hi Guys, Can I use MPXIO/STMS with ZFS to do multipathing amount pools/devices ? Any issues, any specific version of STMS to avoid/use ? By STMS I assume that you are talking about MPXIO. Solaris 10 comes with a quite usable MPXIO and it does work

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Arif Khan wrote: Hi Guys, Can I use MPXIO/STMS with ZFS to do multipathing amount pools/devices ? Yes. It just works (tm). Any issues, any specific version of STMS to avoid/use ? One issue which I've come across recently is that stmsboot is not behaving itself properly when it does its

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Arif Khan wrote: Hi Guys, Can I use MPXIO/STMS with ZFS to do multipathing amount pools/devices ? Any issues, any specific version of STMS to avoid/use ? By STMS I assume that you are talking about MPXIO. Solaris 10 comes with a quite usable

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: ... MPXIO is quite ugly and rough around the edges (at least compared with ZFS) but it works. Just curious - what do you see as the ugliness in MPxIO? I don't have an agenda to push, I'd just like to get feedback from you on what you see as

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Hi Bob, thanks for the quick response. Comments inline below Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: ... MPXIO is quite ugly and rough around the edges (at least compared with ZFS) but it works. Just curious - what do you see as the ugliness in MPxIO? I don't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: I'm fairly sure that the long device names aspect won't change. I don't understand what you mean by Odd requirement to update /etc/vfstab - when we turn on mpxio the device paths change, so any fs that's not ZFS will require repointing, as it

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with STMS/MPXIO

2008-07-16 Thread James C. McPherson
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, James C. McPherson wrote: I'm fairly sure that the long device names aspect won't change. I don't understand what you mean by Odd requirement to update /etc/vfstab - when we turn on mpxio the device paths change, so any fs that's not ZFS will