Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Curiously, I posted to the blog comments last night discussing some of the prior art, going back to some of the disks could do this too discussions by early tree structured binary data structures inventions, mentioning other copy-on-write structure ideas floating around in the late 80s

Re: [zfs-discuss] New zfs pr0n server :)))

2007-09-08 Thread Diego Righi
ok, for the sake of science (!!!), I've turned upside down 4 disks, and took mandatory pics: http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver11nf5.jpg http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver12nw8.jpg http://img482.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver13mj8.jpg

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
For NFSv2/v3, there's no easy answers. Some have experimented with executable automounter maps that build a list of filesystems on the fly, but ick. At some point, some of the global namespace ideas we kick around may benefit NFSv2/v3 as well. The question for me is: why does this work for

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O freeze after a disk failure

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Elling
Gino wrote: cfgadm -al or devfsadm -C didn't solve the problem. After a reboot ZFS recognized the drive as failed and all worked well. Do we need to restart Solaris after a drive failure?? It depends... ... on which version of Solaris you are

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Elling
Stephen Usher wrote: I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading the comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: Welcome Steve, I think you'll find that we rehash this about every quarter with an extra kicker just before school starts in the fall.

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/8/07, Richard Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Changing the topic slightly, the strategic question is: why are you providing disk space to students? For most programming and productivity (e.g. word processing, etc.) people will likely be better suited by having network access for their

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool degraded status after resilver completed

2007-09-08 Thread Stuart Anderson
Possibly related is the fact that fmd is now in a CPU spin loop constantly checking the time, even tough there are no reported faults, i.e., # fmdump -v TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID fmdump: /var/fm/fmd/fltlog is empty # svcs fmd STATE STIME

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Stephen Usher
Richard Elling wrote: Stephen Usher wrote: I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading the comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: Welcome Steve, I think you'll find that we rehash this about every quarter with an extra kicker just before school

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Thurlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For NFSv2/v3, there's no easy answers. Some have experimented with executable automounter maps that build a list of filesystems on the fly, but ick. At some point, some of the global namespace ideas we kick around may benefit NFSv2/v3 as well. The question for

[zfs-discuss] Requirements for a bootable zfs filesystem

2007-09-08 Thread Jason King
Just playing around a bit w/ zfs + zfs root (no particularly good reason other than to just mess around a bit), and I hit an issue that I suspect is simple to fix, but I cannot seem to figure out what that is. I wanted to try (essentially) doing a very manual install to an empty zfs filesystem.

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks Jim for the entertainment. I was party to a similar mess. My father owned an operated a small Electrical Supply business that I worked at since the age of 8. I was recently pulled into a large class-action Asbestos suit against the business since I was the only one still alive through

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/wofs.ps.gz Jörg Hi Jörg, This link doesn't work. If possible, could you make it as an attachment? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list