Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Ed Saipetch
Can someone clarify Sun's approach to opensourcing projects and software? I was under the impression the strategy was to charge for hardware, maintenance and PS. If not, some clarification would be nice. On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Bryan Cantrill wrote: 4. If we do make something

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenStorage GUI

2008-11-11 Thread Ed Saipetch
:21:11PM -0500, Ed Saipetch wrote: Can someone clarify Sun's approach to opensourcing projects and software? I was under the impression the strategy was to charge for hardware, maintenance and PS. If not, some clarification would be nice. There is no single answer -- we use open source

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Traditional SAN

2008-08-21 Thread Ed Saipetch
That's the one that's been an issue for me and my customers - they get billed back for GB allocated to their servers by the back end arrays. To be more explicit about the 'self-healing properties' - To deal with any fs corruption situation that would traditionally require an fsck on

Re: [zfs-discuss] J4200/J4400 Array

2008-07-02 Thread Ed Saipetch
This array has not been formally announced yet and information on general availability is not available as far as I know. I saw the docs last week and the product was supposed to be launched a couple of weeks ago. Unofficially this is Sun's continued push to develop cheaper storage

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS problem with oracle

2008-04-01 Thread Ed Saipetch
Wiwat, You should make sure that you have read the Best Practices Guide and the Evil Tuning Guide for helpful information on optimizing ZFS for Oracle. There are some things you can do to tweak ZFS to get better performance like using a separate filesystem for logs and separating the ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-10-30 Thread Ed Saipetch
Tried that... completely different cases with different power supplies. On Oct 30, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Al Hopper wrote: On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, MC wrote: Here's what I've done so far: The obvious thing to test is the drive controller, so maybe you should do that :) Also - while you're

[zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-10-29 Thread Ed Saipetch
Hello, I'm experiencing major checksum errors when using a syba silicon image 3114 based pci sata controller w/ nonraid firmware. I've tested by copying data via sftp and smb. With everything I've swapped out, I can't fathom this being a hardware problem. There have been quite a few blog