On Feb 13, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Ross wrote: > 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?
Yes, this is the idea. Spencer > > 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 _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
