On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Cyril,
>
> Friday, March 21, 2008, 7:41:37 PM, you wrote:
>
>
> CP> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Mark A. Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It's more than a handy feature. You either have to write down all
> >> the ZFS configuration you do, or keep a separate log of it in order
> >> to restore a backed up ZFS system to a bare metal replacement today.
> >>
> >> With this RFE, you could replay the configuration, restore from tape
> >> and be back up pretty quickly with the same setup you had.
>
> CP> Mark,
>
> CP> you don't need to convince me - I am absolutely in favor of this feature.
> CP> However, I have a friendly comment on that "quick" part: don't you
> CP> think that it takes significantly more time to load your valuable data
> CP> from tapes back to disks, than zpool creation, whether manual or
> CP> automated ?
>
>
> As I wrote before - it's not only about RAID config - what if you have
> hundreds of file systems, with some share{nfs|iscsi|cifs) enabled with
> specific parameters, then specific file system options, etc.
>
> With legacy file systems all you needed was to have a copy of
> /etc/vfstab and your raid config.
>
Gee, we are all thinking same thing, but it looks like we are
arguing... Weird :)
--
Regards,
Cyril
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