Hi Thanks for your answer. We use iSCSI and NFS for some data but the disk I have in mind are the ones we use for our production databases where latency and IOPS require us to use direct attach.
Vic -- Vic Cornell UNIX Systems Administrator Landmark Information Group Ltd 5-7 Abbey Court, Eagle Way, Sowton, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7HY T: 01392 888690 F: 01392 441709 http://www.landmarkinfo.co.uk/ > From: Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Organization: OpenSolaris > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:41:24 +0100 > To: Vic Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org> > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Shared Pools in ZFS > > Vic Cornell wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> I went to storage expo in the UK yesterday. During a long train journey >> back to the west country boss and I were discussing the joys of storage >> management in a production environment and where ZFS would be able to help. >> Whilst it would be great if ZFS were a clustered file-system and able to >> share its pools and file systems read/write across multiple hosts, what >> would be almost as good would be a shared pool where specific hosts could >> write to specific file systems. In that way we could use all of the goodies >> of pool management, tiered storage, migration etc without the metadata >> overhead of shared locks. >> >> Is this feasible? > > No for exactly the same reasons that ZFS isn't a cluster filesystem. > > Why isn't sharing via NFS or iSCSI practical in your case ? > > -- > Darren J Moffat Registered Office: 5-7 Abbey Court, Eagle Way, Sowton, Exeter, Devon, EX2 7HY Registered Number 2892803 Registered in England & Wales The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, you must not use, copy, distribute or disclose the e-mail or any part of its contents or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this e-mail in error, please e-mail the sender by replying to this message. All reasonable precautions have been taken to ensure no viruses are present in this e-mail. Landmark Information Group Limited cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage arising from the use of this e-mail or attachments and recommend that you subject these to your virus checking procedures prior to use. www.landmarkinfo.co.uk _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
