On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 04:15:30PM -0800, Anantha N. Srirama wrote: > > I'm not sure what benefit you forsee by running a COW filesystem > (ZFS) on a COW array (NetApp).
The application requires a filesystem with POSIX semantics. My first choice would be NFS from the Netapp, but this won't work in this case. My next choice is an iSCSI LUN with a local filesystem on it. I'm assuming that since ZFS is more modern than UFS, that ZFS would be the best of the two, even though the JBOD-oriented features of ZFS will not be used. ZFS does seem to be more manageable than UFS. Filesystems that draw their space from a common pool is ideal for our application. The ability to expand a pool by adding another device, or by extending a existing device, is also ideal. Another feature is snapshots, which I've mentioned earlier. -- -Gary Mills- -Unix Support- -U of M Academic Computing and Networking- _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
