Best practice for high availability ZFS pool

[Borja Marcos]

> On 16 May 2016, at 12:08, Palle Girgensohn <girgen at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We need to set up a ZFS pool with redundance. The main goal is high availability - uptime.
> 
> I can see a few of paths to follow.
> 
> 1. HAST + ZFS

Which means that a possible corruption causing bug in ZFS would vaporize the data of both replicas.

> 3. ZFS replication (zfs snapshot + zfs send | ssh | zfs receive)

If you don’t have a hard requirement for synchronous replication (and, in that case, I would opt for a more application
aware approach) it’s the best method in my opinion.





Borja.