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...''s I was writing a little "whitepaper" trying to consolidate the knowledge collected here. It has now reached a "beta" state and I would like to share the result with you. I call it - Whitepaper: ZFS Pooling Explained it can be found here as a preview. http://www.storageconcepts.de/uploads/media/StorageConcepts_Whitepaper_-_ZFS_Pooling_explained_-1e.pdf Link here: http://www.storageconcepts.de/produkte/nexentastor/videolog/ Feedback, comments and corrections are greatly appreshiated. Regards, Robert -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

While thinking about ZFS as the next generation filesystem without limits I am wondering if the real world is ready for this kind of incredible technology ... I''m actually speaking of hardware :) ZFS can handle a lot of devices. Once in the import bug (http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6761786) is fixed it should be able to handle a lot of disks. I want to

Hello list, I started playing aroud with Comstar in snv_134. In snv_116 version of ZFS, a new hidden property for the Comstar MetaData has been intoduced (stmf_sbd_lu). This makes it possible to migrate from legacy (iscsi target daemon) to Comstar without data loss, which is great. Before this property you always lost the first 64k of your zvol data where comstar wrote it''s metadata -

Hello I have a strange issue, I''m having a setup with 24 disk enclosure connected with LSI3801-R. I created two pools. Pool have 24 healthy disks. I disabled LUN persistency on the LSI adapter. When I cold boot the server (power off by pulling all power cables), a warning is shown on the console during boot: .... WARNING: /pci/path/ ... (mpt0): wwn for traget has changed

Hello, I''m thinking about a setup that looks like this: - 2 headnodes with FC connectivity (OpenSolaris) - 2 backend FC srtorages (Disk Shelves with RAID Controllers presenting a huge 15 TB RAID5) - 2 datacenters (distance 1 km with dark fibre) - one headnode and one storage in each data center (Sorry for this ascii art :) ( Data Center 1) <--1km--> (Data