Re: [zfs-discuss] What are .$EXTEND directories?

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Soubie
Le 04/01/2011 08:24, Alan Wright a écrit : Those objects are created automatically when you share a dataset over SMB to support remote ZFS user/group quota management from the Windows desktop. The dot in .$EXTEND is to make the directory less intrusive on Solaris. There is no Solaris or ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Single VDEV pool permanent and checksum errors after replace

2011-01-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Chris Murray I have some strange goings-on with my VM of Solaris Express 11, and I hope someone can help. It shares out other virtual machine files for use in ESXi 4.0 (it, too, runs in

Re: [zfs-discuss] BOOT, ZIL, L2ARC one one SSD?

2011-01-04 Thread Neil Perrin
On 12/25/10 19:32, Bill Werner wrote: Understood Edward, and if this was a production data center, I wouldn't be doing it this way. This is for my home lab, so spending hundreds of dollars on SSD devices isn't practical. Can several datasets share a single ZIL and a single L2ARC, or much

Re: [zfs-discuss] a few questions - Oracle

2011-01-04 Thread webdawg
It is sad that such a lovely file system is now in Oracle's unresponsive hands. I hope someone builds another open file system just like it. I could never find anything like it to protect my data like it does. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] a few questions - Oracle

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Gress
On 01/ 4/11 01:19 PM, webd...@gmail.com wrote: It is sad that such a lovely file system is now in Oracle's unresponsive hands. I hope someone builds another open file system just like it. I could never find anything like it to protect my data like it does.

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 01/ 3/11 04:28 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: There are more people outside of

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Robert Milkowski
On 01/ 4/11 11:35 PM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 01/ 3/11 04:28 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Host based zfs config with Oracle's Unified Storage 7000 series

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Shawn Joy wrote: My question regarding the 7000 series storage is in more of the perspective of the HOST side ZFS config. It is my understanding that the 7000 storage displays a FC lun to the host. Yes, this LUN is a ZFS lun in the 7000 storage, however the host still sees

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS advice for laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Jana Mann wrote: What I would like to know is what risks do I carry by using partitions, I attempted to search for the rationale behind this advice but I can't seem to find it... As far as I am aware, there is no additional risk from using partitions except that there

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS advice for laptop

2011-01-04 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On 01/04/11 18:40, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: Zfs will disable write caching if it sees that a partition is being used This is backwards. ZFS will enable write caching on a disk if a single pool believes it owns the whole disk. Otherwise, it will do nothing to caching. You can enable it

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Garrett D'Amore
On 01/ 3/11 05:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com mailto:richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: There are more people outside of Oracle developing for ZFS than inside Oracle.

Re: [zfs-discuss] a few questions - Oracle

2011-01-04 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Paul Gress On 01/ 4/11 01:19 PM, webd...@gmail.com wrote: It is sad that such a lovely file system is now in Oracle's unresponsive hands. I hope someone builds another open file system just

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On 01/ 3/11 05:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: There are more people outside of Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On 01/ 4/11 09:15 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.comwrote: On 01/ 3/11 05:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec