On Friday, August 24, 2007 at 20:41:04 CEST, Matt B wrote: > That is what I was afraid of. > > In regards to QFS and NFS, isnt QFS something that must be purchased? I > looked on the SUN website and it appears to be a little pricey. > > NFS is free, but is there a way to use NFS without traversing the network? We > already have our SAN presenting this disk to each of the four hosts using > Fiber HBA's so the network is not part of the picture at this point. > Is there some way to utilize NFS with the SAN and the 4 hosts that are fiber > attached?
You cannot use NFS to talk directly to SAN devices. What's wrong with using the network? Attach the SAN devices to one host (or more hosts in a Sun Cluster configuration to get HA) and share the file systems using NFS. That way you are able to enjoy the benefits of ZFS. Ronald _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
