A quick question on this because I'm interested: "In active-path migration, client file system requests for files which have not yet been migrated will be held temporarily while the Monarch system migrates the data from the source to the target file system. After the data requested by the file system operation is retrieved, the client is released and allowed access to the data."
Am I right in thinking that this basically makes your new filesystem act as a go-between while data is in the process of being migrated? In particular, this paragraph doesn't mean client requests aren't held while the entire filesystem is migrated, but just for a short while as their request is bumped to the top of the priority queue, migrated, and then the data released to the client? If so, it's a very interesting idea. If you can have it ready before summer, we'll use it for our migration ;-) In fact, if you have even an alpha build ready by summer I'll happily help test this. I've an IT server chock full of CIFS data that I want to move to ZFS / Samba. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
