Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-29 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Richard, Friday, December 28, 2007, 9:48:53 PM, you wrote: RE Sengor wrote: While on a VCS course on a Symantec site, I was told VxVM is planned to be open sourced some time in near future. In either case the cost is a large factor here, VxVM does not come cheap (unless you use VxSF

Re: [zfs-discuss] X4500 device disconnect problem persists

2007-12-29 Thread Peter Eriksson
Still no news when a real patch will be released for this issue? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-29 Thread Sengor
On 12/29/07, Robert Milkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One good feature in VxVM/VxFS is an ability to shrink a pool or change RAID on-the-fly. Then you can change speed of resilvering or even freeze it if you want. Hot spare support is probably still better (I haven't looked at latest

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-29 Thread Jonathan Edwards
On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Jonathan Loran wrote: Hey, here's an idea: We snapshot the file as it exists at the time of the mv in the old file system until all referring file handles are closed, then destroy the single file snap. I know, not easy to implement, but that is the correct

Re: [zfs-discuss] rename(2) (mv(1)) between ZFS filesystems in the same zpool

2007-12-29 Thread Joerg Schilling
Jonathan Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 29, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Jonathan Loran wrote: Hey, here's an idea: We snapshot the file as it exists at the time of the mv in the old file system until all referring file handles are closed, then destroy the single file snap. I know, not

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-29 Thread Richard Elling
Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Richard, Friday, December 28, 2007, 9:48:53 PM, you wrote: RE Sengor wrote: While on a VCS course on a Symantec site, I was told VxVM is planned to be open sourced some time in near future. In either case the cost is a large factor here, VxVM does not come

[zfs-discuss] automatic balancing tiered-storage...

2007-12-29 Thread Jesper Söderlund
A question with regards to the possibilities with ZFS. There are some proprietary SAN solutions on the market that have the capability to automatically move data that is not accessed frequently moved down to lower-tier of storage. This is very convenient in maximizing the value of high-RPM