[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
just use pkgadd -d wrapper. it will auto-magically convert SVR4 package to the .deb(s) and install them on the fly. You can also use pkgrm to remove them. pkginfo wrapper is also available. On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:38 +0200, Selim Daoud wrote: superbe job...synaptic package manager is really

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: New unstable ISO of NexentaCP (Core Platform) available. http://www.gnusolaris.org/unstable-iso/ncp_beta1-test2-b67_i386.iso Also available at: http://www.genunix.org/distributions/gnusolaris/index.html Changes: * ON B67 based * ZFS/Boot manual

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates Installer/ON/NWS/Debian and provides basis for

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Joe Little
On 6/7/07, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Killing SATA drives

2007-05-29 Thread Terrence McDermond
Thanks for the assistance. The bios update solved the problem. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-25 Thread Shweta Krishnan
Thanks to everyone for their help! yes dtrace did help and I found that in my layered driver, the prop_op entry point had an error in setting the [Ss]ize dynamic property, and apparently that's what ZFS looks for, not just Nblocks! what took me so long in getting to this error was that the

[osol-discuss] Re: zfs and Kernel memory usage

2007-05-22 Thread Joe Bonasera
Part of the difference is just an accounting/reporting one. UFS and most other file systems cache data in unmapped pages. This page caching looks like free memory, since the pages are easily reclaimed for other uses. However the kernel has to map the pages into virtual memory to access the data.

[osol-discuss] Re: zfs and Kernel memory usage

2007-05-22 Thread Gary Peck
Thanks for the information. I was getting worried that I was going to have to go back and ask my supervisors for money to by more memory. That would not have been pretty. Thanks, Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs and Kernel memory usage

2007-05-22 Thread Tom Haynes
Gary Peck wrote: Thanks for the information. I was getting worried that I was going to have to go back and ask my supervisors for money to by more memory. That would not have been pretty. Thanks, Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-18 Thread Shweta Krishnan
I explored this a bit and found that the ldi_ioctl in my layered driver does fail, but fails because of an iappropriate ioctl for device error, which the underlying ramdisk driver's ioctl returns. So doesn't seem like that's an issue at all (since I know the storage pool creation is successful

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-15 Thread Shweta Krishnan
With what Edward suggested, I got rid of the ldi_get_size() error by defining the prop_op entry point appropriately. However, the zpool create still fails - with zio_wait() returning 22. bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'fbt::ldi_get_size:entry{self-t=1;} fbt::ldi_get_size:entry/self-t/{}

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-15 Thread Shweta Krishnan
With what Edward suggested, I got rid of the ldi_get_size() error by defining the prop_op entry point appropriately. However, the zpool create still fails - with zio_wait() returning 22. bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'fbt::ldi_get_size:entry{self-t=1;} fbt::ldi_get_size:entry/self-t/{}

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-14 Thread Shweta Krishnan
I ran zpool with truss, and here is the system call trace. (again, zfs_lyr is the layered driver I am trying to use to talk to the ramdisk driver). When I compared it to a successful zpool creation, the culprit is the last failing ioctl i.e. ioctl(3, ZFS_IOC_CREATE_POOL, address) I tried

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-14 Thread Shweta Krishnan
Thanks Eric and Manoj. Here's what ldi_get_size() returns: bash-3.00# dtrace -n 'fbt::ldi_get_size:return{trace(arg1);}' -c 'zpool create adsl-pool /dev/layerzfsminor1' dtrace: description 'fbt::ldi_get_size:return' matched 1 probe cannot create 'adsl-pool': invalid argument for this pool

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-14 Thread Shweta Krishnan
Thanks Edward. Currently my layered driver does not implement the prop_op(9E) entry point - I didn't realize this was necessary since my layered driver worked fine without it when used over UFS. My layered driver sits above a ramdisk driver. I realized the same problem that you've mentioned

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS over a layered driver interface

2007-05-13 Thread Shweta Krishnan
To give more information, here is the kernel log dump when I run: zpool create mypool path to layered device (my layered driver is called zfs_lyr.) May 14 02:19:27 unknown zfs_lyr: [ID 902459 kern.notice] NOTICE: Inside zfs_lyr_open***SYNC May 14 02:19:27 unknown zfs_lyr: [ID 215874

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS W/Next Build ?

2007-04-27 Thread Lori Alt
Ian Collins wrote: Lori Alt wrote: Horvath wrote: in case you did not recieve my respond. Yes you're right I need zfs boot support. I don't wanna mess with add on thing. To clarify, the support for zfs boot DID go into build 62 (it's official, no add-on needed), but the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS W/Next Build ?

2007-04-25 Thread Lori Alt
Horvath wrote: in case you did not recieve my respond. Yes you're right I need zfs boot support. I don't wanna mess with add on thing. To clarify, the support for zfs boot DID go into build 62 (it's official, no add-on needed), but the standard install code doesn't support it yet. So the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS W/Next Build ?

2007-04-25 Thread Ian Collins
Lori Alt wrote: Horvath wrote: in case you did not recieve my respond. Yes you're right I need zfs boot support. I don't wanna mess with add on thing. To clarify, the support for zfs boot DID go into build 62 (it's official, no add-on needed), but the standard install code doesn't

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS W/Next Build ?

2007-04-22 Thread Horvath
in case you did not recieve my respond. Yes you're right I need zfs boot support. I don't wanna mess with add on thing. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Zfs pool status UNAVAIL

2007-04-16 Thread Tim
Well then again... Had a power outage today... And 'zpool import' no longer works. System continuously panics on import now... Bummer! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: Zfs pool status UNAVAIL

2007-04-15 Thread Tim
Is there a way to recover a Pool that has all disks faulted? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Zfs pool status UNAVAIL

2007-04-15 Thread Tim
W00t I figured it out... She My Zones were on there! Ok.. Steps to recover. 1. zpool destroy zfszones 2. zpool import 3. zpool import pool: zfszones id: 12403141992165190919 state: ONLINE action: The pool can be imported using its name or numeric identifier. config:

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS, Pkg Update Questions

2007-03-26 Thread Horvath
1. So we'll see ZFS as a default FS in the future ? 2. How can I convert my current FS (I assume it's UFS that comes as default) to ZFS? 3. I upgraded my snv_59 to snv_60 and Firefox is still 2.0.1 I wonder why. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS, Pkg Update Questions

2007-03-26 Thread James C. McPherson
Horvath wrote: 1. So we'll see ZFS as a default FS in the future ? yes 2. How can I convert my current FS (I assume it's UFS that comes as default) to ZFS? Short answer - you need more disks, so that you can create the zpool and zfs, then copy your files across. At the moment there is no

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS, Pkg Update Questions

2007-03-26 Thread Dennis
No, AFAIK there is no such option. But there is a easy way to convert your home directory from UFS to ZFS. This is from a German Sun Blog http://blogs.sun.com/solarium/ : I did it that way, slightly diffrent mkdir /space ufsdump -0f /space/home.dump /export/home Remove /export/home from vfstab

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS with raidz

2007-03-20 Thread Kory Wheatley
The reason for this question is we currently have our disk setup in a hardware raid5 on a EMC device and these disks are configured as a zfs file system. Would it benefit us to have the disk be setup as a raidz along with the hardware raid 5 that is already setup too? Or with this double raid

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS with raidz

2007-03-20 Thread UNIX admin
The reason for this question is we currently have our disk setup in a hardware raid5 on a EMC device and these disks are configured as a zfs file system. Would it benefit us to have the disk be setup as a raidz along with the hardware raid 5 that is already setup too? Or with this double

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS with raidz

2007-03-20 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello UNIX, Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 5:03:36 PM, you wrote: The reason for this question is we currently have our disk setup in a hardware raid5 on a EMC device and these disks are configured as a zfs file system. Would it benefit us to have the disk be setup as a raidz along with the

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS causing slow boot up

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Watkins
Are you exporting these filesystems or have quotas on them, since I believe there is a slow boot problem with that! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] bare metal ZFS ? How To ?

2006-11-23 Thread Dennis Clarke
this is off list on purpose ? run zpool import, it will search all attached storage and give you a list of availible pools. then run zpool import poolname or add a -f if you didn't export before the install/upgrade. assume worst case someone walks up to you and drops an array on you.

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-15 Thread Dick Davies
sorry, CCed to wrong list (should have been zfs-discuss). On 15/11/06, Dick Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, we have considered this. On both SPARC and x86, there will be a way to specify the root file system (i.e., the

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-15 Thread Casper . Dik
I suppose it depends how 'catastrophic' the failture is, but if it's very low level, booting another root probabyl won't help, and if it's too high level, how will you detect it (i.e. you've booted the kernel, but it is buggy). If it panics (but not too early) or fails to come up properly?

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS hangs systems during copy

2006-10-26 Thread Jürgen Keil
ZFS 11.0 on Solaris release 06/06, hangs systems when trying to copy files from my VXFS 4.1 file system. any ideas what this problem could be?. What kind of system is that? How much memory is installed? I'm able to hang an Ultra 60 with 256 MByte of main memory, simply by writing big files

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

2006-10-22 Thread UNIX admin
or 2) prtvtoc / fmthard (eg: prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 /tmp/ vtoc.out ; fmthard -s /tmp/vtoc.out /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0) There is a more elegant way to do this, namely: prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s '-' /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s2 This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot and Install Opensolaris Project Proposal

2006-07-11 Thread Lori Alt
John Brewer wrote: Support for Jumpstart to include the ZFS Boot options would be needed as well! Yes, this will be part of the Install support. Lori Alt This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot and Install Opensolaris Project Proposal

2006-07-05 Thread Octave Orgeron
This would be a really great community to start as this will change a lot of things for people. It will be great to see this integrated into the installer and jumpstart. Octave --- Stephen Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ZFS boot and Install project is responsible for providing install,

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot and Install Opensolaris Project Proposal

2006-06-29 Thread Stephen Potter
The ZFS boot and Install project is responsible for providing install, boot, and root support for ZFS filesystems on Solaris. This project is still in the development phase and therefore unavailable to the OpenSolaris community. Without community exposure, we believe that we will be

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS Boot and Install Opensolaris Project Proposal

2006-06-29 Thread Ron Halstead
You get my vote. Thanks. Ron This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] status question regarding sol10u2

2006-06-26 Thread Dennis Clarke
Noel Dellofano wrote: Solaris 10u2 was released today. You can now download it from here: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp Seems the download links are dead except for x86-64. No Sparc downloads. Everything works perfectly. $ ls -1 sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-lang-iso.zip

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-08 Thread Stephen Potter
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Stephen Potter wrote: Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris) Seems it's been done before, I just stumbled across this page:

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Stephen Potter
Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris) -spp This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Sara Dornsife
How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Stephen Potter wrote: Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris) -spp This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... Stephen Potter wrote: Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Torrey McMahon
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... AMPS: This one really does go to eleven ... though that might be a

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Casper . Dik
Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... AMPS: This one really does go to eleven You meen we have to wait for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Torrey McMahon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... AMPS: This one really

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Nils Nieuwejaar
On Wed 06/07/06 at 14:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Ingenthron wrote: Sara Dornsife wrote: How about Turn up your environment with AMPS? Seems to fly in the face of that whole green computing/low power thing the hardware guys have going on. :) But it's catchy... AMPS: This one

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Matt Ingenthron
Sara Dornsife wrote: How about "Turn up your environment with AMPS"? Stephen Potter wrote: Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris) Seems it's been done before, I just stumbled across this page:

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-06-07 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Stephen Potter wrote: Someone here just came up with: Charge up your environment with AMPS (Apache MySQL, PHP, Solaris) The other discussion in this thread notwithstanding, I think PostgreSQL would be the better database to mention. I like the acronym SIDE (Solaris

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues

2006-05-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:29:53AM -0700, Derek Cicero wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: The ZFS discuss list is re-delivering old messages. Which message(s) was redelivered? E.g., a post from Eric Schrock from May 5, 2006, with message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few others. Have the

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues

2006-05-12 Thread Derek Cicero
Nicolas Williams wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:29:53AM -0700, Derek Cicero wrote: Nicolas Williams wrote: The ZFS discuss list is re-delivering old messages. Which message(s) was redelivered? E.g., a post from Eric Schrock from May 5, 2006, with message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK,

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] OSOL mailing list issues

2006-05-12 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 02:28:42PM -0700, Derek Cicero wrote: E.g., a post from Eric Schrock from May 5, 2006, with message ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] OK, based on this message ID, it did not come twice to the same list. It came once to the zfs list on 5/5 and was cross posted to the nfs list.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread Casper . Dik
Why not just put a picture of your middle finger raised with Use OpenSolaris printed below it? That would have the same meaning, and people won't think you made a typo. Because Ben Rockwood came up with a much cooler slogan than that: use UNIX or die. (Ben, you rock.) That's a variant on

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread David J. Orman
Subject: [osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever. Why not just put a picture of your middle finger raised with Use OpenSolaris printed below it? That would have the same meaning, and people won't think you made a typo. Because Ben Rockwood came up with a much cooler

[osol-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-03 Thread Ché Kristo
Sorry about the duplications everyone...there were some java exceptions when i was submitting these and i didn't think they were posting :| This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS/WAN? Or, can ZFS be used as a distrib file system over a Wide-Area

2006-04-30 Thread Stephen Potter
I'm not sure I understand your question. ZFS is a local filesystem, not a network filesystem (like NFS or CIFS). Are you asking what the ramifications of sharing a ZFS filesystem via NFS are? Or are you looking to do some kind of interesting SAN replication trick with symmetric remote

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS removed back to SVM

2006-03-01 Thread Brian
THANK YOU That worked great I had forgot all about the labels. I have been using ZFS on the drives for so Long. I really want to run it but I have to use the GA 1/06 release for stabilty and security pathces. Brian This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-10-07 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:16, Joerg Schilling wrote: James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The design of ZFS is endian-neutral. Ufs is very much endian-dependent and as I understand it the work involved to remedy that is more than

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-10-06 Thread Casper . Dik
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 13:16, Joerg Schilling wrote: James C. McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The design of ZFS is endian-neutral. Ufs is very much endian-dependent and as I understand it the work involved to remedy that is more than non-trivial. The effort to make ufs endien

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-09-06 Thread Alan DuBoff
On Monday 05 September 2005 10:11 am, Daniel Johnsen wrote: Thanks for your replies, I will wait in suspense for ZFS to come on Solaris and hopefully also on Linux :) Wow, do you think it's easily portable to the Linux kernel? How long do you think it might take them? -- Alan DuBoff - Sun

[osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-09-05 Thread Daniel Johnsen
Thanks for your replies, I will wait in suspense for ZFS to come on Solaris and hopefully also on Linux :) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Kiernan
On 31/08/05, Gary Gendel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is zfs endian independent? I just went through a bad experience when I tried to move a ufs volume from a sparc to x86 Solaris box. I also tried Linux because the documentation claims that Linux ufs is able to read either ufs endian, but I

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 11:12, Joerg Schilling wrote: Making UFS dual endian would not be really hard. and it's been done to a cousin of the Solaris UFS code (take a look at NetBSD; look through their ufs/ffs and fsck code for FFS_EI ifdefs). To port that over to solaris, additional work would

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Rock
Joerg Schilling schrieb: At mount time the correctness of Bill Joy's birthday needs to be verified Actually, it is Kirk's birthday. Daniel ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At mount time the correctness of Bill Joy's birthday needs to be verified Actually, it is Kirk's birthday. Maybe it's Bill Joy's birthday in Sun's UFS and Kirk's in the BSD one? But wasn't Bill involved with BSD before Kirk? But Kirk was

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you believe this, do you have any prove for this? There are many other sites which cite Kirk as primary author of FFS. But Kirk himself is more humble about it: - Bill Joy did the first design of FFS. I implemented his initial design - filling

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Rock
Joerg Schilling schrieb: Daniel Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With a UFS version from SunOS-4.0 (1987) or later, newfs of course and even by default uses bigger values (depending on the geometry and size of the disk). BTW: The number of inodes/cylinder group is unrelated to the number of

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-30 Thread James C. McPherson
Gary Gendel wrote: Is zfs endian independent? I just went through a bad experience when I tried to move a ufs volume from a sparc to x86 Solaris box. I also tried Linux because the documentation claims that Linux ufs is able to read either ufs endian, but I think that's only in a future (or

[osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-29 Thread Jake Maciejewski
How much is the code going to help with incompatible licenses? I suppose Linux distros could use the userland side of ZFS, and from what I know this is a big deal because ZFS is as much a volume manager as a filesystem, but what about the kernel side? CDDL code can't be distributed with the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: zfs

2005-08-29 Thread Andy Tucker
On 8/29/05, Jake Maciejewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How much is the code going to help with incompatible licenses? [...] CDDL code can't be distributed with the kernel, so everything would have to be rewritten. License issues don't seem to have prevented distribution of a Linux port of