Comments on: OpenSolaris ZFS replication http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45 Technical writings and consulting services Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:18:58 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Maurice http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-1788 Maurice Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:14:06 +0000 http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45#comment-1788 Why not dispense with cron and have the script enter a never-ending loop to do the snapshot? Then the next snapshot always begins immediately after the last one finished. Why not dispense with cron and have the script enter a never-ending loop to do the snapshot? Then the next snapshot always begins immediately after the last one finished.

]]> By: chris http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-1783 chris Sat, 30 May 2009 00:10:40 +0000 http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45#comment-1783 ahh i figured it out i had to run the file through dos2unix ahh i figured it out i had to run the file through dos2unix

]]> By: chris http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-1782 chris Sat, 30 May 2009 00:05:12 +0000 http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45#comment-1782 i just downloaded your script to play with and when i run root@CAM-SAN-T21:~# ./replicate.ksh SAN/ISCSI/cam-vmfs-samba SAN/Replication/cam-vmfs-samba 10.66.227.200 : unknown option i just downloaded your script to play with and when i run

root@CAM-SAN-T21:~# ./replicate.ksh SAN/ISCSI/cam-vmfs-samba SAN/Replication/cam-vmfs-samba 10.66.227.200
: unknown option

]]> By: Brent Jones http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-933 Brent Jones Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:50:30 +0000 http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45#comment-933 Sturban, Correct, block level activity gets recorded by AVS, and sent to your secondary node. Supposedly you can just do manual synchronizations periodically instead of real-time, but then what benefit does AVS have over ZFS snapshots... It would just add a lot of complexity. We had a few Sun engineers come to our site, and dissuaded us from AVS for those exact reasong (though Sun's sales people said AVS was the best thing since sliced bread) Sturban,
Correct, block level activity gets recorded by AVS, and sent to your secondary node.
Supposedly you can just do manual synchronizations periodically instead of real-time, but then what benefit does AVS have over ZFS snapshots…
It would just add a lot of complexity. We had a few Sun engineers come to our site, and dissuaded us from AVS for those exact reasong (though Sun’s sales people said AVS was the best thing since sliced bread)

]]> By: sturban http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45&cpage=1#comment-929 sturban Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:28:56 +0000 http://www.brentrjones.com/?p=45#comment-929 Is that true about the AVS and ZFS resilvering?? -I was considering AVS but that has put me off considerably now. Is that true about the AVS and ZFS resilvering?? -I was considering AVS but that has put me off considerably now.

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