Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive?

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:41 AM, "Edward Ned Harvey" wrote: >> From: Richard Elling [mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com] >> >> It is relatively easy to find the latest, common snapshot on two file >> systems. >> Once you know the latest, common snapshot, you c

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive?

2010-09-26 Thread Richard Elling
On Sep 25, 2010, at 7:42 PM, "Edward Ned Harvey" wrote: >> From: opensolaris-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:opensolaris- >> discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk >> >> I'm using a custom snaopshot scheme which snapshots every hour, day, >> week and month, ro

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] How to disable ZIL and benchmark disk speed irresponsibly

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Elling
On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > I have a system with a bunch of disks, and I’d like to know how much faster > it would be if I had an SSD for the ZIL; however, I don’t have the SSD and I > don’t want to buy one right now. The reasons are complicated, but it’s not a > co

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-19 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:35 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > One more thing I’d like to add here: > > The PERC cache measurably and significantly accelerates small disk writes. > However, for read operations, it is insignificant compared to system ram, > both in terms of size and speed. There is no

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-15 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 14, 2010, at 6:45 PM, Thomas Burgess wrote: > > Whatever. Regardless of what you say, it does show: > > · Which is faster, raidz, or a stripe of mirrors? > > · How much does raidz2 hurt performance compared to raidz? > > · Which is faster, raidz, or hardware raid

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-13 Thread Richard Elling
On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > Please add some raidz3 tests :-) We have little data on how raidz3 > > performs. > > Does this require a specific version of OS? I'm on Solaris 10 10/09, and > "man zpool" doesn't seem to say anything about raidz3 ... I haven't tried

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance benchmarks in various configurations

2010-02-13 Thread Richard Elling
Some thoughts below... On Feb 13, 2010, at 6:06 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > I have a new server, with 7 disks in it. I am performing benchmarks on it > before putting it into production, to substantiate claims I make, like > “striping mirrors is faster than raidz” and so on. Would anybody

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Richard Elling
e the configuration as documented http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-1985/gdhgt?a=view -- richard On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Richard Elling mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com>> wrote: FWIW, I just took at look at the BUI in b108 and it seems to have garnered some love sin

Re: [osol-discuss] [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Elling
C. Bergström wrote: For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a compan

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] why gnu chmod in os2008.11?

2009-01-14 Thread Richard Elling
Dennis Clarke wrote: > I feel that the default PATH on any Solaris machine from Solaris 8 upwards > *must* be : > > PATH=/usr/xpg4/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ccs/bin For sysadmins, yes. Developers, maybe not. For my wife, /usr/bin is sufficient (finally! :

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-07 Thread Richard Elling
Nicolas Dorfsman wrote: > Le 7 nov. 07 à 11:36, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > > >> Kyle McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> John Plocher wrote: >>> >>> Putting /usr/gnu at the head of PATH causes incompatibilities >>> >>> >> Failure to put /usr/gnu

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Open Sound System

2007-06-06 Thread Richard Elling
Awesome news! I've really enjoyed the ease with which OpenSound works on my boxes. Thanks 4Front! -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [approach-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Why we should have an OpenSolaris Hosted binary set. [OSH-thread]

2007-06-03 Thread Richard Elling
Brian Gupta wrote: Joseph, I have made an effort to incorporate your comments into a new list. Primary Drivers: -- 1) There is a desire for a minimal/core OpenSolaris distro, that other distro packagers can leverage to create their own distros. Building a distro from this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Victor Latushkin wrote: It seems that if you clone disks bit for bit you'll end up with the same hostid for all boxes and this may be confusing. Geez, just spoof them to something different, if you must. -- richard ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing lis

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Cloning a disk w/ ZFS in it

2006-10-20 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
minor adjustments below... Darren J Moffat wrote: Asif Iqbal wrote: Hi I have a X2100 with two 74G disks. I build the OS on the first disk with slice0 root 10G ufs, slice1 2.5G swap, slice6 25MB ufs and slice7 62G zfs. What is the fastest way to clone it to the second disk. I have to build 10

[osol-discuss] Re: Regarding installing a product in cluster environment

2006-02-13 Thread Richard Elling
> I have a sun cluster 3.1 environment on 2 sun servers(Nodes). > Now i want to install a product on this cluster. > Now my question is whether i have to install this > product on each node or i have to install in shared > directory of cluster ? It depends. Really. For many applications, we te

[osol-discuss] Re: Is Sun Cluster really a free product now ?

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Elling
> Free, as I understand it, but not yet open-source. I'm no lawyer, but I > read the new license agreement pretty carefully yesterday and it lists > commercial use, personal use, even ratio-based service-provider use. > And it's not just Sun Cluster it's all the N1 stuff, JES, Identity >

[osol-discuss] Re: SunPlex cluster vs. N1 Grid engine

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Elling
> As Sun recently released its entire application > stack, it is now viable to run the enterprise > availability tools right in one's rack at home. Most of these products have been available for free download for education and research use for some time. > There are two products in the aforementi

[osol-discuss] Re: nForce3 NIC-where the heck is it?

2005-10-17 Thread Richard Elling
> I've got a machine with an nForce3 250 chipset. The > Ethernet controller isn't seen on install by either > Sol10 03/05 or Nevada b.24 "NForce3 250" or "NForce3 250 Gb"? The difference is that the "Gb" chipset does Gigabit ethernet and works just fine with the nge driver in Nevada. If it isn't

[osol-discuss] Re: Porting ReiserFS to Solaris?

2005-09-09 Thread Richard Elling
> Sorry Ben, i did mean exactly as I said it, I will NEVER support > reiserFS I used it for a while a few years ago, and it corrupted my > data, this wasn't some alpha or beta version or as the result of the > system loosing power, this was the default stable version in a stable > enviroment, and i

[osol-discuss] Re: lame discussion notifications

2005-08-31 Thread Richard Elling
> Isn't "discuss" above the forum name? Sure, but "OpenSolaris-discuss" is more better. Thread name is the bigger peeve. -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] lame discussion notifications

2005-08-31 Thread Richard Elling
Is it just me, or do others think that the e-mail notifications of watched threads is lame? Here's what I get: --- You are watching the forum "discuss", which was updated Aug 31, 2005 3:40:27 PM by Sherry Q. Moore. To view the forum, visit: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=26

[osol-discuss] Re: Conference Presence

2005-08-19 Thread Richard Elling
Having worked the Sun @ Supercomm booth several times, I know that we usually do have a presence and a booth in the vendor area. Check with GSO marketing to find out what the current status is. Cebit is very important, too. -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Are you ready for VPN on the OS? vpnc andpatch for OS people.

2005-07-21 Thread Richard Elling
> Well, in that case it would probably end up either > somewhere in BluePrints program on Sun's site, or > somewhere on BigAdmin. But as far as I know, only Sun > employed engineers are allowed to write this kind of > documentation for the Sun BluePrints program. In the past, we've published Sun B

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris on Laptops Article

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Elling
Some Turion laptops are starting to appear, which, IMHO, are more interesting than Semprons ;-) -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] AMD developer's survey

2005-07-12 Thread Richard Elling
AMD Developer's website is having a poll asking what your development platform is. http://developer.amd.com Though they bias the question by listing Linux as open-source, but not Solaris nor FreeBSD, at least they mention Solaris specifically. Now's your chance to vote. -- richard This messag

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Insecure by default

2005-07-11 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Glynn Foster wrote: I think if we had a good package management system, then I'd probably care less about 100's of packages installed on my machine eg. apt-get gnome-panel automatically fetches the necessary panel requirements. I don't think a "good package management system" is enough. I actu

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Insecure by default

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Elling
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Paul Walsh wrote: > > > I remember being told by the tutor on a Solaris SysAdmin course to > > always choose "Entire distribution + OEM support" Nowadays I'm not so > > I think that's very poor advice. In general, this is good advice... > > sure. A system being set up as

[osol-discuss] Re: Security Community for OpenSolaris

2005-07-06 Thread Richard Elling
+1 -- richard This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org