Re: New mirror in Russia

2009-02-25 Thread Matthias Schmidt
Hi, * Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 22/02/2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > Speaking of mirrors in Russia, there is no internet in the Asian part > of Russia, let alone any mirrors, so it's a bit strange that Russian > mirrors are still listed in the Asian section of the mirrors page. :)

Re: New mirror in Russia

2009-02-25 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 25/02/2009, Matthias Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > * Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 22/02/2009, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > > > > > Speaking of mirrors in Russia, there is no internet in the Asian part > > of Russia, let alone any mirrors, so it's a bit strange that Russian > > mirrors ar

Re: Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Our installer support for HAMMER isn't advanced enough yet. What we really want is a UFS /boot, swap, and then a HAMMER root that covers everything else. The idea with HAMMER is you just create one big filesystem and use the PFS functionality to break it up into separate manag

Re: OT - was Hammer or ZFS based backup, encryption

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Generally speaking the idea with HAMMER's snapshotting and mirroring is that everything is based on transaction-ids stored in the B-Tree. The mirroring functionality does not require snapshotting per-say, because EVERY sync HAMMER does to the media (including the automatic file

Re: BFBI OTT bug or limitation? UPDATE2

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Bill Hacker wrote: :> Top-posting to my own post ... : :Again. : :Reproduced the original verbose crash. Only the last line is the same as :below. : :Failed to set up the HP-200LX serial, so will run it again... : :Bill : :> :-( :> :> du -h > dulist :> :> Two more runs, one OK with hammer mi

Re: mirror-stream over ssh w/o 'root' privs

2009-02-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
Well, you can always write the stream out to a file I guess, but the basic problem here is that the mirroring stream is a B-Tree layer stream. If we can't trust the source there's no point running the stream onto an actual filesystem without some major auditing of its contents.

Re: Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

2009-02-25 Thread Jurij Kovacic
Thank you very much! Kind regards, Jurij Kovacic Matthew Dillon wrote: Our installer support for HAMMER isn't advanced enough yet. What we really want is a UFS /boot, swap, and then a HAMMER root that covers everything else. The idea with HAMMER is you just create one big file

Re: mirror-stream over ssh w/o 'root' privs

2009-02-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:06:14 -0800 (PST) Matthew Dillon wrote: > Well, you can always write the stream out to a file I guess, > but the basic problem here is that the mirroring stream is a > B-Tree layer stream. If we can't trust the source there's no > point running the stream o

Re: Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: Our installer support for HAMMER isn't advanced enough yet. What we really want is a UFS /boot, swap, and then a HAMMER root that covers everything else. I would (and have) taken that a step farther. 'once upon a time' '/usr' was not part of the core essenti

Re: BFBI OTT bug or limitation? UPDATE2

2009-02-25 Thread Bill Hacker
Responded to off-list, as it is: A) tedious the way I did it, and not certain to have been free of hardware glitches.. B) a lead-pipe cinch that Matt will come up wth a better test methodology. ;-) Bill Matthew Dillon wrote: :Bill Hacker wrote: :> Top-posting to my own post ... : :Ag

Re: Hammer FS: imposing a size limit on PFS?

2009-02-25 Thread Matthias Schmidt
He, * Matthew Dillon wrote: > > The idea with HAMMER is you just create one big filesystem and use the > PFS functionality to break it up into separate management domains. > Currently a size limit may not be placed on a PFS. This raises an important question: what to do if one uses H