On 7/20/08, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know that there's a "when rsync is finished run script Z" > sort of facility (though I reckon it would be handy, and as well as > for ZFS recv), so I'd suggest just using zfs snapshots kicked off by > cron at a period you determine to be most appropriate.
Well I'd kick off a shell script that runs an rsync, and when it finishes, run the zfs snapshot command. That's my plan at least. The script would process one command at a time right? > A lot of people posting here appear to like chassis from SuperMicro. > You might also want to consider an external enclosure; I've had good > perf with a 4 disk Proavio Enhance 4-ML unit hanging off an LSI SAS > controller. Proavio also do 8 disk units. The controller is SAS; the drives in the enclosures would be SATA though, right? Originally I was thinking of a small host machine with multiple eSATA port multipler cards, but it sounds like Solaris/OSOL/etc. do not support them quite yet. If so, I could buy a Shuttle XPC with 2 PCI-e slots, get 2 eSATA cards with 4 ports apiece, 5 drives on each port, and have a possible 40 disks hanging off a single host machine (Shuttles are quiet too, and I think most of the eSATA enclosures can be quiet too) > ZFS eats address space for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so 64bit is > the main concern, really. If you can pack in more cores, so much the > better for you. Don't forget to spec a good nic too. Yeah, the core2s run hybrid 64bit so I'd be installing 64bit versions :) Nic-wise, I would hope the onboard works well enough (this is where people could provide suggestions as to chipsets or mobos with decent support) I haven't built a machine in a while, I have been using Shuttle XPC's, so I don't pay attention anymore to consumer motherboard specs and such. _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
