ZFS Network API-Layer

[NicholasRush]

Hello everybody,
At the moment the ZFS File API Layer only works locally on one system. In an HA setup, no two nodes can access the data at the same time, which is correct, since ZFS is not a cluster file system. If ZFS got a real network API, such functions would be possible that no matter from which node in the cluster I want to access the data, this would be possible even though the pool can only be mounted on one node. Since the data transfer could then run transparently via separate network connections between the nodes. It would also make it possible to move volumes or datasets transparently for the application without interruption between Z-pools. It would also be possible to create volumes or datasets that are divided into several zpools, but are one large volume. Or a grouping of several datasets into one large dataset. (infinte volume, grouping of datasets into one large)