Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hot spares are dedicated spares in the ZFS world. Until you replace the actual bad drives, you will be running in a degraded state. The idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded until your spares are no longer in use. --Tim Thanks for the clarification. Wouldn't

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from cron or something similar. Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has resulted in a useless crippled time slider I wondered if any of you still have or use some kind of cron driven scripting for

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Packaging guidelines/how-to's

2010-12-05 Thread Alex Kuster
Hi people, I'm pretty new to the mailing lists ... I'm interested in packaging, and, naturally I have a few questions about it, here they are : 1) Which format/packaging system will OpenIndiana use ? (IPS, RPM5,etc ..) 2) Any article or stuff to read about packaging with that format/system ? 3)

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Packaging guidelines/how-to's

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kuster vertex.symph...@gmail.com wrote:  Hi people, I'm pretty new to the mailing lists ... I'm interested in packaging, and, naturally I have a few questions about it, here they are : 1) Which format/packaging system will OpenIndiana use ? (IPS, RPM5,etc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Before there was a time slider, people must have run snapshots from cron or something similar. Since in 3 tries at new installs, using different media each time has resulted in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: ... However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. Actually, this evolved into the auto snapshot service which

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Any have a ready made script to run from cron for snapshots

2010-12-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:42 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org writes: ... However the work you pointed too looks like it will be a very nice tool once some of the wrinkles are ironed out. Actually,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Packaging guidelines/how-to's

2010-12-05 Thread Christopher Chan
On Monday, December 06, 2010 05:56 AM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Alex Kustervertex.symph...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people, I'm pretty new to the mailing lists ... I'm interested in packaging, and, naturally I have a few questions about it, here they are : 1) Which