Hello Thomas, Tuesday, November 29, 2005, 9:15:19 PM, you wrote:
TN> Hi all. TN> I do have some questions concerning the move away from UFS/SVM to ZFS. TN> Using SVM mirror quite intensivly in the past we many times broke up TN> mirrors and mounted each submirrors UFS on seperate mountpoint or just TN> kept one as a kind of snapshot. Has always been a nice quick and cheap TN> backup while upgrading the OS. So here question 1: TN> - assuming a zpool in 2 disk mirror configuration on which one or more ZFS TN> reside would it be possible to do the same trick? I understand that we TN> could export the pool and import on two different machines and fix the TN> 'missing mirror part' afterwards. But is there a way to get a similar TN> thing done on ONE machine? Why not to use snapshots? They are persistent regarding to reboots (which is not a case in UFS). TN> Q2: ZFS surely allows for the mirrored setup but is there something TN> similar to the reservation mechanism in SVM. Not (yet). TN> Q3: if disks holding zpools are attached to different machines, each of TN> the machines could (ignoring the conflicts) in theory access the pools TN> only by scanning the information residing on the disks, right? Would there TN> be need for an 'export' or will it just work? Should just work if it hasn't changed lately. TN> Hope it's not to early to raise the questions but we are facing the TN> limitations of UFS so I'm looking forward to yours answers Keep in mind that ZFS on-disk format could possible still change from version to version (or maybe it's frozen right now after it went public - ???). -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
