[HAST] ZFS, many disks, write order

[InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter]

my fault, forget my comment about single zil

Am 22.09.2015 um 09:26 schrieb InterNetX - Juergen Gotteswinter:
> One of the great Hast Features is that it Hides Disk Failures from ZFS,
> this has been already discussed on this List a few Months ago.
> 
> Single ZIL Flash Drive is also not such a great Idea. I whould suggest
> to start from scratch with "ZFS Best Practices".
> 
> Am 21.09.2015 um 23:10 schrieb Ben RUBSON:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I plan to use HAST to synchronize a ZFS pool between 2 servers.
>> The ZFS pool has 3 RAID-Z2 VDEVs (8+2), + 3 spares.
>> +1 mirror for SLOG.
>> +1 mirror for L2ARC.
>> So a total of 37 disks (4TB each).
>> 40Gb/s network bandwidth between the 2 servers.
>>
>> Will I have to define each of the 37 disks/resources in hast.conf ?
>> Stupid question, but will this setup (with so many resources) work ?
>>
>> Will write IOs be ordered on the secondary node in the same order (over all the 37 devices) as they occurred on the primary node ?
>> This of course to have the secondary node consistent, even after a power failure of the primary during a high IO load, leading into an import -F <poolname> on the secondary node.
>>
>> In HAST, each resource seems to be "independent" from the others.
>> In DRBD, as an example, we can put several volumes in a same resource to guarantee write order over all the volumes (disks) of the resource.
>> Example :
>>
>> resource r0 {
>>     volume 0 {
>>         device /dev/drbd0;
>>         disk /dev/c0v0;
>>     }
>>     volume 1 {
>>         device /dev/drbd1;
>>         disk /dev/c0v1;
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> What about HAST then ?
>> Of course I would have liked to have my 37 disks as volumes in the same resource, as in the example above.
>>
>> Thank you very much for your help !
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Ben
>>
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