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477
April 20th, 2009 05:00
Hard and soft file link
Does anyone know what is the status of hard and soft link file status on the replica? Your help is appreciated.
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JamesBEMC
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April 20th, 2009 06:00
Whether these are hardlinks or softlinks doesnt matter too much. I think what you are trying to cross-filesystem is softlink anyways.
Well, lets say you have two filesystems on your AIX Server called Server1
/fs1
/fs2
Lets say you have a softlink on /fs2 back to /fs1 to a file (eg)
/fs2/file_from_fs1 -> /fs1/file_from_fs1
Lets assume you replicate /fs2 only.
You mount a copy of /fs2 to a DR server as /fs2 on Server2
Now, the softlink is broken, as there is no /fs1 on that server.
The only thing to work in that instance would be NFS shares to point back explicitly to SERVER:/fs1
Remember with links, if you loose fs1, fs2 will NOT contain your data.
James.
JamesBEMC
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April 20th, 2009 05:00
Can you elaborate on this a bit please?
What OS? Are you trying to mount multiple filesystems which contain both the source and link? Are you mounting them with the same ordinal paths?
rwong1
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April 20th, 2009 06:00
The host is an AIX with CLARiiON CX splitter. Two file systems/tow volumes, we plan to replicate one but not the other. To reduce the size of the replication and application impact, I'm wondering whether the hard/soft link can help.