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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2016 12:15:39 +0200
From:      Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city>
To:        Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@ixsystems.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HAST + ZFS + NFS + CARP
Message-ID:  <20160811101539.GM70364@mordor.lan>
In-Reply-To: <1AA52221-9B04-4CF6-97A3-D2C2B330B7F9@sarenet.es>
References:  <20160703214723.GF41276@mordor.lan> <65906F84-CFFC-40E9-8236-56AFB6BE2DE1@ixsystems.com> <B48FB28E-30FA-477F-810E-DF4F575F5063@gmail.com> <61283600-A41A-4A8A-92F9-7FAFF54DD175@ixsystems.com> <20160704183643.GI41276@mordor.lan> <AE372BF0-02BE-4BF3-9073-A05DB4E7FE34@ixsystems.com> <20160704193131.GJ41276@mordor.lan> <E7D42341-D324-41C7-B03A-2420DA7A7952@sarenet.es> <20160811091016.GI70364@mordor.lan> <1AA52221-9B04-4CF6-97A3-D2C2B330B7F9@sarenet.es>

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On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:24:40AM +0200, Borja Marcos wrote:
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> > On 11 Aug 2016, at 11:10, Julien Cigar <julien@perdition.city> wrote:
> >=20
> > As I said in a previous post I tested the zfs send/receive approach (wi=
th
> > zrep) and it works (more or less) perfectly.. so I concur in all what y=
ou
> > said, especially about off-site replicate and synchronous replication.
> >=20
> > Out of curiosity I'm also testing a ZFS + iSCSI + CARP at the moment,=
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> > I'm in the early tests, haven't done any heavy writes yet, but ATM it=
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> > works as expected, I havent' managed to corrupt the zpool.
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> I must be too old school, but I don=E2=80=99t quite like the idea of usin=
g an essentially unreliable transport
> (Ethernet) for low-level filesystem operations.
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> In case something went wrong, that approach could risk corrupting a pool.=
 Although, frankly,

Yeah.. although you could have silent data corruption with any broken
hardware too. Some years ago I suffered a silent data corruption due to=20
a broken RAID card, and had to restore from backups..

> ZFS is extremely resilient. One of mine even survived a SAS HBA problem t=
hat caused some
> silent corruption.

Yep, and I would certainly not use another FS to do that. Scrubbing the
pool more regularly is also something to do.

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> The advantage of ZFS send/receive of datasets is, however, that you can c=
onsider it
> essentially atomic. A transport corruption should not cause trouble (apar=
t from a failed
> "zfs receive") and with snapshot retention you can even roll back. You ca=
n=E2=80=99t roll back
> zpool replications :)
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> ZFS receive does a lot of sanity checks as well. As long as your zfs rece=
ive doesn=E2=80=99t involve a rollback
> to the latest snapshot, it won=E2=80=99t destroy anything by mistake. Jus=
t make sure that your replica datasets
> aren=E2=80=99t mounted and zfs receive won=E2=80=99t complain.
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>=20
> Cheers,
>=20
>=20
>=20
>=20
> Borja.
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