[zfs-discuss] confused about zpool import -f and export

2010-05-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
type: 'disk' id: 0 guid: 2101335193002161906 path: '/dev/dsk/c0d0s0' devid: 'id1,c...@aqemu_harddisk=qm1/a' phys_path: '/p...@0,0/pci-...@1,1/i...@0/c...@0,0:a' whole_disk: 0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mirroring USB Drive with Laptop for Backup purposes

2010-05-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
get fixed. His use case is very compelling - I know lots of SOHO folks who could really use a NAS where this 'just worked' The ZFS team has done well by thinking liberally about conventional assumptions. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Te

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS - USB 3.0 SSD disk

2010-05-07 Thread Bill McGonigle
at's about double what I usually get out of a cheap 'desktop' SATA drive with OpenSolaris. Slower than a RAID-Z2 of 10 of them, though. Still, the power savings could be appreciable. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2008-05-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
Is it also true that ZFS can't be re-implemented in GPLv2 code because then the CDDL-based patent protections don't apply? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/m

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2008-05-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
buted under the terms of the CDDL, as I read it. From skimming the porting paper, it looks like the BSD port uses the CDDL code directly and so doesn't have to worry about this. I assume Mac OS X does too? I'm sure this has been hashed before, but my search keywords are apparently

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2008-05-06 Thread Bill McGonigle
reasons). Well, yeah, the bootloader ought to be as minimal as possible, that just makes sense, any business cases aside. I was pleasantly surprised to boot up the latest OpenSolaris OS Live CD and see GRUB, though. :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.44

Re: [zfs-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-19 Thread Bill McGonigle
hey couldn't figure out how to take back a try-out server). Having ZFS as a de- facto standard lifts all boats, IMHO. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.26

Re: [zfs-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-19 Thread Bill McGonigle
bial core people were on board the other 3's code would get re-done. Unless it were e.g., Ingo, Alan, Linus. In my dream world Jonathan dispatched Jeff to talk to Linus and broach, "we'll do it if you do it". :) If so we can mark the date on the calendar when digital cameras

Re: [zfs-discuss] The ZFS inventor and Linus sitting in a tree?

2008-05-20 Thread Bill McGonigle
to figure something out sooner or later. It's worth remembering that some people are still waiting for what they consider essential features, so we're really early in the game here, and if we're still in the Cathedral stage, the status quo may be the best bet for now. -Bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per-user home filesystems and OS-X Leopard anomaly

2008-05-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
ort.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/wa/signIn They'll have ZFS on OSX Server eventually. If you don't want to create an ADC account I can put one in for you (though less efficient, obviously). -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: [zfs-discuss] replace, restart, gone - HELP!

2008-05-21 Thread Bill McGonigle
you ultimately determine that to have been a bad disk or not (once your backup is done!). -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in S10U6 vs openSolaris 05/08

2008-05-23 Thread Bill McGonigle
cache - is it so they can front a really massive pool of disks that would exhaust market-available maximum main memory sizes? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS in S10U6 vs openSolaris 05/08

2008-05-27 Thread Bill McGonigle
ce trade-off. Ooh, neat; I hadn't considered that. Cool, thanks. :) -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Project Hardware

2008-05-28 Thread Bill McGonigle
olaris driver to find its holes, in a ZFS context? On one hand I'd guess it shouldn't be too hard to simulate different kinds of loads, but on the other hand, if that were easy, the drivers' authors would have done that before unleashing buggy code on the masses. Thanks, -Bill

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs equivalent of ufsdump and ufsrestore

2008-05-30 Thread Bill McGonigle
2014 might be tricky, if nobody's written a ZFS stream version filter by then. I just ask these questions to distinguish what's easy in practice vs. theory. I'm curious - is the current stream format tagged with a version number? -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
cfgadm' gives you a good list. You're about an hour behind me on the learning curve (building a Nexenta box here - ZFS found a problem disk that was causing troubles previously - sweet!). -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC

Re: [zfs-discuss] disk names?

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
::dsk/c1t0d0disk connectedconfigured ok sata0/1::dsk/c1t1d0disk connectedconfigured ok --snip--- -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problems with USB Storage devices

2008-06-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
f the early USB2.0 chips). Just food for thought - there's a lot to go wrong before ZFS sees it and USB gear isn't always well-made. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-04 Thread Bill McGonigle
, and I don't know that there's a way to do that with Seagate's. The WD Velociraptors look really nice for ZFS cache drives, but it looks like that might be a bit not-quite-ready at this point (failures appear to hurt quite a bit), so I'll save two slots for a pair down t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hardware Check, OS X Compatibility, NEWBIE!!

2008-06-04 Thread Bill McGonigle
Even ZFS is helpless against small-odds events, though - sooner or later somebody will have 3 drives of their raidz2 fail over the same night. -Bill - Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per-user home filesystems and OS-X Leopard anomaly

2008-06-05 Thread Bill McGonigle
>> create an ADC account I can put one in for you (though less >> efficient, obviously). > > Feel free to do so on my behalf. :-) Better late then never... this is now bug #5989285 (not that this will help most people; they're not open). -Bill - Bill M

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per-user home filesystems and OS-X Leopard anomaly

2008-06-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Jun 5, 2008, at 17:03, Bill McGonigle wrote: > Better late then never... this is now bug #5989285 (not that this > will help most people; they're not open). Apple say: After further investigation it has been determined that this is a known issue, which is currently being i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Per-user home filesystems and OS-X Leopard anomaly

2008-06-09 Thread Bill McGonigle
On May 21, 2008, at 13:14, Bill McGonigle wrote: > They'll have ZFS on OSX Server eventually. Replying to myself again... :P It looks like 'eventually' is next year: http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/snowleopard/ "ZFS For business-critical server deployments,