Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Petr Janda
> I do expect the semi-real-time mirroring technology to be in by > mid-year, because that will be directly tied into the UNDO fifo and the > UNDO fifo is needed for crash recovery. Cheers, Is it possible at this stage to boot DragonFly kernel off a hammer filesystem ? Maybe it would be a go

Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matthew Dillon wrote: :> Here's what is left: :> * Structural locking. The B-Tree is fine-grained locked but the :>locks for the blockmap are just a hack (one big lock). : :Have you decided how to implement multi-master replication yet? : :-- :Jason Smethers My current plan

Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:So -- in this instance you are both the establishment and the revolutionary at :the same time. Could you explain in extra-bonehead language what problems you :were solving with the cluster model, and if you are still solving those problems :with the newer model? : :Thanks! The three major

Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Jason Smethers
Matthew Dillon wrote: Here's what is left: * Structural locking. The B-Tree is fine-grained locked but the locks for the blockmap are just a hack (one big lock). Have you decided how to implement multi-master replication yet? -- Jason Smethers

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :> Considering how few items are left on the list for HAMMER, it will :> likely be production-ready long before the mid-year release. : :Do you think you'll get some of the clustering functionality in before the mid :year release, like volumes spanning multiple hosts? What about booti

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Is it worth pushing release back, say, 1 month? Getting off the 1.1x :series that much sooner would be nice. No, we should release 1.12 this month as planned. -Matt Matthew Dillon

Re: HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread walt
Matthew Dillon wrote: HAMMER is really shaping up now... This is far, FAR better then the cluster model I was using last week and had to throw away. Massively better. Like night and day. I'm fond of telling political hotheads (which you once were, but no longer ;o) that,

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Petr Janda
> Considering how few items are left on the list for HAMMER, it will > likely be production-ready long before the mid-year release. Do you think you'll get some of the clustering functionality in before the mid year release, like volumes spanning multiple hosts? What about booting Dra

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Sun, February 10, 2008 4:00 pm, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Ok, it's going to be 1.12. As much as I hate 2.0 being so late, > there's no point calling it 2.0 without a production-ready HAMMER. > > Considering how few items are left on the list for HAMMER, it will > likely be pro

HAMMER update 10-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
HAMMER is really shaping up now. Here's what works now: * All filesystem operations * All historical operations * All Pruning features Here's what is left: * freemap code (allocate and free big-blocks, which are 8MB blocks). Currently a hack so everything else

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, it's going to be 1.12. As much as I hate 2.0 being so late, there's no point calling it 2.0 without a production-ready HAMMER. Considering how few items are left on the list for HAMMER, it will likely be production-ready long before the mid-year release.

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Thomas E. Spanjaard
Garance A Drosihn wrote: I'd go with 1.2 for now. Too bad we can't reuse version numbers ;). -- Thomas E. Spanjaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: HAMMER update 06-Feb-2008

2008-02-10 Thread Bill Hacker
Petr Janda wrote: Make this a 1.12, because HAMMER is only in an alpha state. Then when HAMMER is production ready release, change the numbering scheme altogether. The roman numerals for example are nice, and would attract attention. DragonFly XIII sure looks good, and the june release DragonFl