On Thu 13/11/08 12:04 , River Tarnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: > > are there any RFEs or plans to create a 'continuous' replication mode for > ZFS?i envisage it working something like this: a 'zfs send' on the sending > hostmonitors the pool/filesystem for changes, and immediately sends them to > thereceiving host, which applies the change to the remote pool. > > currently i crontab zfs send | zfs recv for this, but even a small delay > (10minutes) makes it less useful than continuous replication, as most changed > ornewly created files in our workload are accessed shortly after > creation.
Would it be a practical solution? I doubt zfs receive would be able to keep pace with any non-trivial update rate. Mirroring iSCSI or a dedicated HA tool would be a better solution. -- Ian. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
