HAST and ZFS

[Freddie Cash]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:24 AM, Davide D'Amico <davide.damico at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to setup an active/passive cluster.
> Some questions:
> - why the use of net/ucarp rather than carp? Is it for its up/down scripts?
> - I would like to use ZFS on top on HAST, so I think that in
> wiki.freebsd.org/HAST
> I should change UFS (in sh scripts) but how to replace newfs command?
> With zpool create disk da0?
>

See the mailing list archives.  I posted a devd.conf and script for using
CARP instead of uCARP, for using HAST devices to create a ZFS pool.  Works
quite nicely, although there are no checks/fixes to prevent split-brain if
CARP flip-flops between the two hosts.

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Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com