Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on ZFS based storage?

2010-05-07 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Thanks for your suggestions :) Another thing comes to my mind (expecially after a past bad experience with a buggy storage non-zfs backend). Usually (correct me if I'm wrong) the storage will be having redundancy on its zfs volumes (be it mirror or raidz). Once the redundant volume is exposed as

[zfs-discuss] ZFS on ZFS based storage?

2010-05-01 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
I'm trying to guess what is the best practice in this scenario: - let's say I have a zfs based storage (let's say nexenta) that has it zfs pools and volumes shared as iScsi raw devices - let's say I have another server running xvm or virtualbox connected to the storage - let's say one of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on ZFS based storage?

2010-05-01 Thread Brandon High
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Gabriele Bulfon gbul...@sonicle.com wrote: My question is: - is it correct to mount the iScsi device as base disks for the VM and then create zpools/volumes in it, considering that behind it there is already another zfs? Yes, that will work fine. In fact, zfs