On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:45:12 -0600, Mike Gerdts <mger...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Nicolas Williams ><nicolas.willi...@sun.com> wrote: [snip] >> Right, but normally each head in a cluster will have only one pool >> imported. > >Not necessarily. Suppose I have a group of servers with a bunch of >zones. Each zone represents a service group that needs to >independently fail over between servers. In that case, I may have a >zpool per zone. It seems this is how it is done in the real world.[1] >1. Upton, Tom. "A Conversation with Jason Hoffman." ACM Queue. >January/February 2008. 9. Exactly. Or even a zpool per application, if there is more than one application in a zone. In that sense, I would call a zpool a "unit of maintenance". Or a "unit of failure". -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_] _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
