ZFS

Bruce M Simpson bms at spc.org
Thu Sep 16 09:19:41 PDT 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:00:44AM -0500, Sam wrote:
> >Yes, it's a single filesystem. But the storage most likely won't be all
> >in one place. Making it look like it's accessible from one place is a
> >good thing.
> 
> ... are you hinting at multiple globally remote block accessible storage
> sets?  Otherwise I'm at a loss.

To the best of my knowledge, no, ZFS/DFS is only accessible locally on
the machine it's mounted on. But the block storage can be scattered
across multiple devices. It can be exported via NFS, this much I know.

BMS


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