> To clarify further; EMC note "EMC Host Connectivity > Guide for Solaris" indicates that ZFS is supported on > 11/06 (aka Update 3) and onwards. However, they sneak > in a cautionary disclaimer that snapshot and clone > features are supported by Sun. If one reads it > carefully it appears that they do support ZFS (not > that they should care what FS or not is on their > disks) but want to make a big deal about ZFS by > inserting this superfluous comment. Jealousy I > suppose, I don't see a comparable disclaimer against > VxFS for example.
Well, I think they are protecting themselves. Consider how array based software deals with snapshots and replication at the LUN level. Since ZFS filesystems are logical entities in a pool, there's no way for an array to replicate or snapshot a single ZFS filesystem. So perhaps they are saying that if you want to snapshot or clone a filesystem, it is only support by the internal mechanisms of ZFS and not the array based software which could only clone and snapshot an entire pool. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
