No :-) The slightly more longer answer is that I don't think ZFS is what you're looking for, I believe there are other projects better suited (although I don't recall the names off the top of my head).
For starters, ZFS only offers at best dual parity raid, so if more than two computers went offline at once you could have problems. I guess there's potential to just use multiple mirrors or copies of data, but I've no idea what performance would be like for that. Then there's the question of how you connect the computers up. You could use iSCSI, but my experience is that ZFS freezes for a good while when a device is disconnected. I'm also not aware of any way to automatically reconnect or manage devices. Then you have to consider the network overhead from ZFS re-syncing data if a computer goes offline and a 'hot spare' computer replaces it. ZFS I believe will just go flat out, potentially slowing your network. You may be able to bodge ZFS into a solution for this, but I don't think it's even ready for that yet, and there are in all likelyhood far better alternatives. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
