ZFS and Oracle RAC

Hi,

I am working in a environment that involves Oracle RAC. We are 
implementing 2 clusters with 4 node each.
The plan is to  do an RMAN  to  ZFS  filesystem  labeled  /backup . The  
/backup  filesystem is 12 TB  which
should be sufficient between the 2 clusters. 

I believe in practice that your supposed to deport and import zpools 
between hosts. The plan is to mount /backup ZFS
filesystem only on node 1 in cluster 1 and node 5 in cluster 2. Is there 
any way I can keep backup mounted on both
nodes simultaneously without having to deport and import all the time. I 
think the answer will be no because zfs is not
a global filesystem.

But I've asked the DBA's if the ORACLE SID will be different on both 
nodes. They said yes and that I like to setup
the structure so backups to node 1 is done in one directory structure 
and node 5 in another. So in effect you have the
following:

/backup/node1
/backupnode5

The drives on the /backup filesystem is all SATA drives.

So again the basic question can I maintain /backup filesystem on both 
node simutaneously? Or will I have to deport and import
on the nodes respectively?

Thanks,

Phillip

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