Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-15 Thread Charles Menser
Perhaps an ISCSI mirror for a laptop? Online it when you are back home to keep your backup current. Charles On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:04 PM, A Darren Dunham ddun...@taos.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:11:10PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: zpool offline / zpool online of a mirror component

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-15 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:37:15AM -0500, Charles Menser wrote: Perhaps an ISCSI mirror for a laptop? Online it when you are back home to keep your backup current. I do exactly this, but: - It's not the only thing I do for backup. - The iscsi initiator is currently being a major PITA for me.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-14 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 04:38:42PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Max Levine max...@gmail.com wrote: Veritas has this feature called fast mirror resync where they have ?a DRL on each side of the mirror and, detaching/re-attaching a mirror causes only the changed

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-14 Thread Frank Cusack
On January 14, 2010 8:58:51 PM + A Darren Dunham ddun...@taos.com wrote: I was under the impression that the ZFS fast replay only held for mirrors where one part is missing and not where you actually administratively detach it or where the mirror is used on another host (a la 'zpool split').

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-14 Thread Miles Nordin
fc == Frank Cusack fcus...@fcusack.com writes: fc That's my experience. I wish zfs had that feature. Pretty fc sure (IIRC) SVM has it with offline/online. zpool offline / zpool online of a mirror component will indeed fast-resync, and I do it all the time. zpool detach / attach will

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-14 Thread A Darren Dunham
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:11:10PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: zpool offline / zpool online of a mirror component will indeed fast-resync, and I do it all the time. zpool detach / attach will not. Yes, but the offline device is still part of the pool. What are you doing with the device when

[zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-13 Thread Max Levine
Veritas has this feature called fast mirror resync where they have a DRL on each side of the mirror and, detaching/re-attaching a mirror causes only the changed bits to be re-synced. Is anything similar planned for ZFS? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs fast mirror resync?

2010-01-13 Thread Cyril Plisko
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Max Levine max...@gmail.com wrote: Veritas has this feature called fast mirror resync where they have  a DRL on each side of the mirror and, detaching/re-attaching a mirror causes only the changed bits to be re-synced. Is anything similar planned for ZFS? ZFS