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Wrench Using ZFS with Veritas Cluster Server

Until I really began to explore the practical implications of using ZFS with VCS, I would not have necessarily realised the obstacles that would be put in my path. Data integrity is a must-have for storage in a shared host environment, so it surprised me to learn as I opened this particular Pandora's box that VCS provides no solution at all for ensuring data integrity on any of the ZFS pools that are a part of your cluster. The 'Zpool' agent is dumb. It imports the pool. It exports the pool. "What about SCSI-3 persistent reservations?", I hear you ask. What about them, indeed. ZFS is a competing product, I won't expect an answer to that problem coming from the Symantec camp. So I took up the gauntlet on a mission to add SCSI-3 PR support to the Zpool agent for my client. I succeeded. So I have written up some notes that might help direct others should they stumble across the same obstacles, and along the way I've discovered the benefits that Solaris MPxIO has to offer that are superior to VxDMP.

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LIBPATH(3)						     Library Functions Manual							LIBPATH(3)

NAME
libpathplan - finds and smooths shortest paths SYNOPSIS
#include <graphviz/pathplan.h> typedef struct Pxy_t { double x, y; } Pxy_t; typedef struct Pxy_t Ppoint_t; typedef struct Pxy_t Pvector_t; typedef struct Ppoly_t { Ppoint_t *ps; int pn; } Ppoly_t; typedef Ppoly_t Ppolyline_t; typedef struct Pedge_t { Ppoint_t a, b; } Pedge_t; typedef struct vconfig_s vconfig_t; #define POLYID_NONE #define POLYID_UNKNOWN FUNCTIONS
int Pshortestpath(Ppoly_t *boundary, Ppoint_t endpoints[2], Ppolyline_t *output_route); Finds a shortest path between two points in a simple polygon. You pass endpoints interior to the polygon boundary. A shortest path con- necting the points that remains in the polygon is returned in output_route. If either endpoint does not lie in the polygon, an error code is returned. (what code!!) vconfig_t *Pobsopen(Ppoly_t **obstacles, int n_obstacles); int Pobspath(vconfig_t *config, Ppoint_t p0, int poly0, Ppoint_t p1, int poly1, Ppolyline_t *output_route); void Pobsclose(vconfig_t *config); These functions find a shortest path between two points in a simple polygon that possibly contains polygonal obstacles (holes). Pobsopen creates a configuration (an opaque struct of type vconfig_t) on a set of obstacles. Pobspath finds a shortest path between the endpoints that remains outside the obstacles. If the endpoints are known to lie inside obstacles, poly0 or poly1 should be set to the index in the obstacles array. If an endpoint is definitely not inside an obstacle, then POLYID_NONE should be passed. If the caller has not checked, then POLYID_UNKNOWN should be passed, and the path library will perform the test. (!! there is no boundary polygon in this model?!!!) int Proutespline (Pedge_t *barriers, int n_barriers, Ppolyline_t input_route, Pvector_t endpoint_slopes[2], Ppolyline_t *output_route); This function fits a Bezier curve to a polyline path. The curve must avoid a set of barrier segments. The polyline is usually the out- put_route of one of the shortest path finders, but it can be any simple path that doesn't cross any obstacles. The input also includes endpoint slopes and 0,0 means unconstrained slope. Finally, this utility function converts an input list of polygons into an output list of barrier segments: int Ppolybarriers(Ppoly_t **polys, int n_polys, Pedge_t **barriers, int *n_barriers); AUTHORS
David Dobkin (dpd@cs.princeton.edu), Eleftherios Koutsofios (ek@research.att.com), Emden Gansner (erg@research.att.com). 01 APRIL 1997 LIBPATH(3)