Re: [zfs-discuss] Bp rewrite

2013-02-15 Thread Tyler Walter
As someone who has zero insider information and feels that there isn't much push at oracle to develop or release new zfs features, I have to assume it's not coming. The only way I see it becoming a reality is if someone in the illumos community decides to do the work required to put it in.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bp rewrite

2013-02-15 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 02/15/13 14:39, Tyler Walter wrote: As someone who has zero insider information and feels that there isn't much push at oracle to develop or release new zfs features, I have to assume it's not coming. The only way I see it becoming a reality is if someone in the illumos community decides to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Bp rewrite

2013-02-15 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 02/15/2013 03:39 PM, Tyler Walter wrote: As someone who has zero insider information and feels that there isn't much push at oracle to develop or release new zfs features, I have to assume it's not coming. The only way I see it becoming a reality is if someone in the illumos community

[zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
So, I hear, in a couple weeks' time, opensolaris.org is shutting down. What does that mean for this mailing list? Should we all be moving over to something at illumos or something? I'm going to encourage somebody in an official capacity at opensolaris to respond... I'm going to discourage

[zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms of reliability, performance, features? My main reason for asking is this: I have a mac, I use Time Machine, and I have VM's inside. Time Machine, while great in general, has the limitation of being unable to intelligently

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms of reliability, performance, features? ** ** My main reason for

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Volker A. Brandt
Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) writes: Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms of reliability, performance, features? I use it on and off for data exchange between a MacBook Pro, some iMacs, and various Solarisoid systems. I do this

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Hearn, Christopher
On Feb 15, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.commailto:opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: Anybody using maczfs / ZEVO? Have good or bad things to say, in terms of reliability,

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Erik Ableson
I've been using it happily since before the Greenbytes purchase. You're currently limited to pool version 28. I generally use it with external USB drives (single disk pools), but I have tested file based RAIDZ pools which worked fine. The only caveat I will note, particularly for working with