Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All storage management would take place on the file server, where the physical disks reside. The application server would still perform end-to-end error checking but would notify the file server when it detected an error.
There are several advantages to this configuration. One current recommendation is to export raw disks from the file server. Some storage devices, including I assume Sun's 7000 series, are unable to do this. Another is to build two RAID devices on the file server and to mirror them with ZFS on the application server. This is also sub-optimal as it doubles the space requirement and still does not take full advantage of ZFS error checking. Splitting the responsibilities works around these problems. -- -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
