[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now

2006-03-14 Thread Iwan Rahabok
There is a ZFS roadmap in this website somewhere... but I cannot find it... Appreciate if someone put it at the zfs home page. Anyway, here is what I understand (I'm not an authority here). After U2 release (which will have ZFS), the next batch of main updates is U4. cheers! e1 This message pos

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-10 Thread Darren J Moffat
UNIX admin wrote: Adding crypto to ZFS isn't that hard once we have IEEE 1619 mode (AES LRW) implemented in the crypto framework aes module(s). Dealing with the key management is very hard because thats the critical bit to making it both usable and secure. (Scratching head) If I had to solve t

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-10 Thread UNIX admin
> Adding crypto to ZFS isn't that hard once we have > IEEE 1619 mode > (AES LRW) implemented in the crypto framework aes > module(s). > > Dealing with the key management is very hard because > thats the critical > bit to making it both usable and secure. (Scratching head) If I had to solve this p

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
Jürgen Keil wrote: This is apparently a known issue: Bug ID: 6381203 Synopsis: deadlock due to i/o while assigning (tc_lock held) http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6381203 Fixed in build 36. - Bart -- Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance [EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-09 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: It's a bit of work to set up, and it's not supported. x86 only for now. You still need a UFS slice somewhere to hold the boot archive. But it does work; my 2 x 2 GHz amd box boots w/ zfs root. Once grub groks zfs, the need for the slice will go away. You mean you have a UFS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-09 Thread Bill Bradford
On 3/9/06, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal > > with SVM/SDS again. > Why? > SVM has really come a long way. It's integrated into Solaris by default and > very reliable. > I can't count the number of times SVM has saved me, not to mentio

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-09 Thread Jürgen Keil
> However I only want the following : > > (1) Take three disks and make a ZFS filesystem > (2) set the compression option on. > (2) Share it out via NFS > > Thats it. That is all. The last time I tried this (two weeks ago, ~snv_34, only one disk in the zpool), ZFS on the NFS4 server

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread UNIX admin
> I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal > with SVM/SDS again. Why? SVM has really come a long way. It's integrated into Solaris by default and very reliable. I can't count the number of times SVM has saved me, not to mention increased I/O performance if configured correctly. This

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread UNIX admin
> It's a bit of work to set up, and it's not supported. > x86 only for now. > You still need a UFS slice somewhere to hold the boot > archive. But it does work; my 2 x 2 GHz amd box > boots > w/ zfs root. > > Once grub groks zfs, the need for the slice will go > away. You mean you have a UFS /bo

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread UNIX admin
> Well I can tell you that I am still sitting on the > fence here. > > Its not an uncomfortable position either. > > On the one hand I can just install Solaris 10 Update > 1 and create the > fielsystem that I need with SVM and life goes on. > Apply power and > then walk away. > > On the other h