zfs discuss - Aug 2006 - does zfs can be failover between two mechine?

like two host share the storage, does in can failover ?
does zfs can be stop and restart in cli?
 
 
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Hawk Tsai wrote:
> does zfs can be failover between two mechine?
> like two host share the storage, does in can failover ?
What do you mean exactly by "two host share the storage"?

Are you looking for a distributed filesystem?  ZFS is a local filesystem.

Are you thinking of disks on a SAN which can be accessed by either 
machine?  In that case, though only one machine can access the filesystem 
at one time, you could perhaps use "zpool import" to access the
filesystem
from the second machine if the first machine were to die.
> does zfs can be stop and restart in cli?
Yes, see the documentation for the "zpool import" and "zpool
export"
commands (man zpool).

Regards,
Luke
[caveat: I am only a ZFS user and not an expert!]

Hello Hawk,

Friday, August 25, 2006, 3:55:17 AM, you wrote:

HT> like two host share the storage, does in can failover ?
HT> does zfs can be stop and restart in cli?

Yes, You either need Sun Cluster (3.2 beta supports ZFS) or do it
manually by using zpool import/export.

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