Hi all, I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 installed. My question is : is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage (in my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? cheers
On 8/31/06, san2rini at fastwebnet.it <san2rini at fastwebnet.it> wrote:> Hi all, > I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 > installed. My question is : > is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage (in > my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? >If solaris see''s the device as a readable and writeable block device or a slice on the device, be it a scsi, ide, pata, usb flash drive, lofi mounted text file and it is larger than 128MB of diskspace it can be part of a zfs pool. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com> cheers > > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
James Dickens wrote:> On 8/31/06, san2rini at fastwebnet.it <san2rini at fastwebnet.it> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 >> installed. My question is : >> is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage (in >> my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? >> > If solaris see''s the device as a readable and writeable block device > or a slice on the device, be it a scsi, ide, pata, usb flash drive, > lofi mounted text file and it is larger than 128MB of diskspace it can > be part of a zfs pool.San2rini, the only thing I''d add to JamesD''s comment is that since you''ve got a d1000, if you have two scsi channels in your e420 you should put the d1000 in split-bus mode and use zfs to do the mirroring. Of course, you''re still going to have a SPOF in the d1000, but if you only want to get a feel for zfs then it''s a good way to demonstrate to yourself just how reliable zfs is :) cheers, James C. McPherson (on a permanent search for more disk space ....)
Thanks guys for your help. Of course I have already put the D1000 in split so I can test the ZFS mirroring and so on.... cheers Alfredo James C. McPherson wrote:> James Dickens wrote: >> On 8/31/06, san2rini at fastwebnet.it <san2rini at fastwebnet.it> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> I am about to try ZFS on my 420 with (of course) Solaris 10 6/06 >>> installed. My question is : >>> is there any storage compatibility list where to find which storage >>> (in >>> my case a D1000) goes or not with ZFS? >>> >> If solaris see''s the device as a readable and writeable block device >> or a slice on the device, be it a scsi, ide, pata, usb flash drive, >> lofi mounted text file and it is larger than 128MB of diskspace it can >> be part of a zfs pool. > > San2rini, the only thing I''d add to JamesD''s comment is that since > you''ve got a d1000, if you have two scsi channels in your e420 you > should put the d1000 in split-bus mode and use zfs to do the mirroring. > > Of course, you''re still going to have a SPOF in the d1000, but if you > only want to get a feel for zfs then it''s a good way to demonstrate to > yourself just how reliable zfs is :) > > > > cheers, > James C. McPherson > (on a permanent search for more disk space ....) > >