John R Pierce wrote:
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
I think what you want is a proper storage array with mirrored write cache.
Which is what we have with ZFS + SSD-based ZIL for far less money than a NetApp.
not unless you have a pair of them configured as an active/standby HA cluster, sharing dual port disk storage, and some how (magic?) mirroring the cache pool so that if the active storage controller/server fails, the standby can take over wthout losing a single write.
OT too but really thought this was a good post/thread on ZFS
http://www.mail-archive.com/zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org/msg18898.html
"ZFS is designed for high *reliability*" [..] "You want something completely different. You expect it to deliver *availability*.
And availability is something ZFS doesn't promise. It simply can't deliver this."
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nate