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Date:      Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:57:01 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
To:        Chris Watson <bsdunix44@gmail.com>
Cc:        Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HAST + ZFS + NFS + CARP
Message-ID:  <20160630185701.GD5695@mordor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <678321AB-A9F7-4890-A8C7-E20DFDC69137@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:32:17AM -0500, Chris Watson wrote:
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> Sent from my iPhone 5
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> >=20
> >>=20
> >> Yes that's another option, so a zpool with two mirrors (local +=20
> >> exported iSCSI) ?
> >=20
> > Yes, you would then have a real time replication solution (as HAST), co=
mpared to ZFS send/receive which is not.
> > Depends on what you need :)
> >=20
> >>=20
> >>> ZFS would then know as soon as a disk is failing.
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> So as an aside, but related, for those watching this from the peanut gall=
ery and for the benefit of the OP perhaps those that run with this setup mi=
ght give some best practices and tips here in this thread on making this a =
good reliable setup. I can see someone reading this thread and tossing two =
crappy Ethernet cards in a box and then complaining it doesn't work well.=
=20

It would be more than welcome indeed..! I have the feeling that HAST
isn't that much used (but maybe I am wrong) and it's difficult to find=20
informations on it's reliability and concrete long-term use cases...

Also the pros vs cons of HAST vs iSCSI

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> Perhaps those doing this could listed recommended NICs so write performan=
ce of the slave over the network isn't slow as sin, or their relevant part =
of their config scripts to get this running well, any sysctl's set to boost=
 performance, gotcha's you e seen using this setup, and if a mirror failed =
were you happy with this. India during recovery? Anything that will help cu=
rrent and future folks stumbling across this thread I think would be a big =
help in getting this good idea used a little more widely.=20
>=20
> Chris
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