Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-13 Thread Erast
On 08/13/2010 01:39 PM, Tim Cook wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/13/opensolaris_is_dead/ I'm a bit surprised at this development... Oracle really just doesn't get it. The part that's most disturbing to me is the fact they won't be releasing nightly snapshots. It appears they've s

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaStor 3.0.3 vs OpenSolaris - Patches more up to date?

2010-07-05 Thread Erast
In 3.0.3+ new option would list appliance changelog going forward: nmc$ show version -c On 07/04/2010 05:58 PM, Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: Where can I find a list of these? This leads to the more generic question of: where are *any* release notes? I saw on Genunix that Community Edition 3.0.3 wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Interesting experience with Nexenta - anyone seen it?

2010-05-20 Thread Erast
Hi Kyle, very likely that you hit driver bug in isp. After the reboot, take a look on /var/adm/messages file - anything related might shed some light. I wouldn't suspect Intel GigE card - fairly good one and driver is very stable. Also, some upgrades posted, make sure the kernel displays 13

[zfs-discuss] Co-creator of ZFS, Bill Moore joins Nexenta advisory board

2010-04-20 Thread Erast
Good news for Nexenta and OpenSolaris community in general: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/blog/2010/04/06/bill-moore-joins-nexenta-advisory-board/ Nexenta invites talents and hiring OpenSolaris Kernel/API engineers. If you are in SF bay area and you think you are qualified, send your resume by f

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-28 Thread Erast
Eric D. Mudama wrote: On Wed, Oct 28 at 13:40, "C. Bergström" wrote: Tim Cook wrote: PS: Not having enough engineers to support a growing and paying customer base is a *good* problem to have. The opposite is much, much worse. So use Nexenta? Got data you care about? Verify

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-28 Thread Erast
C. Bergström wrote: Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:40:12PM +0800, "C. Bergström" wrote: So use Nexenta? Got data you care about? Verify extensively before you jump to that ship.. :) So you're saying Nexenta have been known to drop bits on the floor, unprovoke

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs code and fishworks "fork"

2009-10-27 Thread Erast
As far as I know, its an effort! Not just for x4275 specifically, but in general with any other x86 hardware and storage oriented software. A lot of work required to support a final solution as well. What Nexenta does with its version of NexentaStor is enabling third-party Partners to integrate

Re: [zfs-discuss] fishworks on x4275?

2009-10-19 Thread Erast
Frank Cusack wrote: On October 19, 2009 9:53:14 AM +1300 Trevor Pretty wrote: Frank I've been looking into:- http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection &id=4&Itemid=128 Thanks! I *thought* there was a Nexenta solution but a google search didn't turn anything u

Re: [zfs-discuss] eon or nexentacore or opensolaris

2009-05-26 Thread Erast
May be what you saying is true wrt. NexentaCore 2.0. But hey, think about open source principals and development process. We do hope that NexentaCore will become an official Debian distribution some day! We evolving and driven completely by the community here. Anyone can participate and fix the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Add WORM to OpenSolaris

2009-04-25 Thread Erast
Something like this? http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=171&Itemid=112 Daniel P. Bath wrote: Has anyone created a opensource plugin for WORM (Write Once, Read Many) for OpenSolaris? Any ideas how hard it would be to create this?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Public ZFS API ?

2009-03-18 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 14:53 -0400, Cherry Shu wrote: > Are any plans for an API that would allow ZFS commands including > snapshot/rollback integrated with customer's application? Sounds like you are looking for abstraction layering on top of integrated solution such as NexentaStor. Take a look o

Re: [zfs-discuss] AVS and ZFS demos - link broken?

2009-03-17 Thread Erast Benson
James, also there is this demo: http://www.nexenta.com/demos/auto-cdp.html showing how AVS/ZFS integrated in NexentaStor. On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:25 -0600, James D. Rogers wrote: > The links to the Part 1 and Part 2 demos on this page > (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/avs/Demos/) appear

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comstar production-ready?

2009-03-03 Thread Erast Benson
Hi Stephen, NexentaStor v1.1.5+ could be an alternative, I think. And it includes new cool COMSTAR integration, i.e. ZFS shareiscsi property actually implements COMSTAR iSCSI target "share" functionality not available in SXCE. http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-relnotes On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 07:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-16 Thread Erast Benson
pNFS is NFS-centric of course and it is not yet stable, isn't it? btw, what is the ETA for pNFS putback? On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 12:20 -0700, Marion Hakanson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > It's interesting how the speed and optimisation of these maintenance > > activities limit pool size. It'

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS-over-iSCSI performance testing (with low random access results)...

2008-10-14 Thread Erast Benson
. > I know they're in Solaris Express and the updated binary distro > form of os2008.05 - I just don't know whether Erast and the > Nexenta clan have included them in what they are releasing as 1.0.8. > > Erast - could you chime in here please? Unfortunately I've got n

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:42 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -04

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 19:10 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 18:37 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > >> >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 15:00 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > >> A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > >> (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than > >> DRBD. For example, AVS is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:36 -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote: > A disadvantage, however, is that Sun StorageTek Availability Suite > (AVS), the DRBD equivalent in OpenSolaris, is much less flexible than > DRBD. For example, AVS is intended to replicate in one direction, > from a primary to a seconda

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/ZFS vs Heartbeat/DRBD

2008-09-10 Thread Erast Benson
Well, obviously - its Linux vs. OpenSolaris question. Most serious advantage of OpenSolaris is ZFS and its enterprise level storage stack. Linux just not there yet.. On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:51 +0200, Axel Schmalowsky wrote: > Hallo list, > > hope that so can help me on this topic. > > I'd like

Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: any effort for snapshot management

2008-09-05 Thread Erast Benson
Steffen, Most complete and serious ZFS snapshot management, integrated ZFS send/recv replication over RSYNC with CLI, integrated AVS, GUI and management server which provides rich API for C/C++/Perl/Python/Ruby integrators available here: http://www.nexenta.com/nexentastor-overview Its ZFS+ with

[zfs-discuss] NexentaStor API & Windows SDK published

2008-08-04 Thread Erast Benson
Hey folks, just saw another cool news this morning - Nexenta Systems released documentation for remote API and Windows SDK with demos for accessing NexentaStor. News itself: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=56 ZFS and the rest of appliance function

[zfs-discuss] Pogo Linux ships NexentaStor pre-installed boxes

2008-08-01 Thread Erast Benson
Hi folks, wanted to share some exciting news with you. Pogo Linux shipping NexentaStor pre-installed boxes, like this one 16TB - 24TB: http://www.pogolinux.com/quotes/editsys?sys_id=3989 And here is announce: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=129&Itemid=56 P

Re: [zfs-discuss] five megabytes per second with Microsoft iSCSI initiator (2.06)

2008-02-19 Thread Erast Benson
http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/entry/x4500_solaris_zfs_iscsi_perfect On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:44 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > It would be useful if people here who have used iSCSI on top of ZFS > could share their performance experiences. It is very easy to waste a > lot of time trying to r

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS replication strategies

2008-02-01 Thread Erast Benson
Take a look on NexentaStor - its a complete 2nd tier solution: http://www.nexenta.com/products and AVS is nicely integrated via management RPC interface which is connecting multiple NexentaStor nodes together and greatly simplifies AVS usage with ZFS... See demo here: http://www.nexenta.com/demo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue fixing ZFS corruption

2008-01-23 Thread Erast Benson
well, we had some problems with si3124 driver, but with driver binary posted in this forum the problem seems been fixed. Later we saw the same fix went in into b72. On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 05:11 +0300, Jonathan Stewart wrote: > Jeff Bonwick wrote: > > The Silicon Image 3114 controller is known to co

Re: [zfs-discuss] Issue fixing ZFS corruption

2008-01-23 Thread Erast Benson
I believe issue been fixed in snv_72+, no? On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:41 -0800, Jeff Bonwick wrote: > The Silicon Image 3114 controller is known to corrupt data. > Google for "silicon image 3114 corruption" to get a flavor. > I'd suggest getting your data onto different h/w, quickly. > > Jeff > >

[zfs-discuss] Integrated transactional upgrades with ZFS

2008-01-17 Thread Erast Benson
Hi guys, new article available explaining details on how enterprise-like upgrades integrated with Nexenta Core Platform starting from RC2 using ZFS capabilities and Debian APT: http://www.nexenta.org/os/TransactionalZFSUpgrades What is NexentaCP? NexentaCP is a minimal (core) foundation that ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Thank you! we are working on it. new website is coming, as well as next release of NCP. Meanwhile, old RC1 could be downloaded from: http://archive.nexenta.org/releases On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:01 -0800, MC wrote: > > 2) Unstable APT integrated with ON build 79, give it a try! > > Excellent pro

[zfs-discuss] Nexenta/Debian APT integrated with ZFS now...

2007-12-19 Thread Erast Benson
Hi All, This is the road to NCP 1.0... Our motto: """Ubuntu makes best Debian Desktop platform - Nexenta makes best Debian Server/Storage platform.""" Some latest Nexenta related news: 1) Official Nexenta Core Platform (NCP) repository now is http://apt.nexenta.org 2) Unstable APT integrated

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
ptic package manager is really impressive > is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? > > selim > > On 6/22/07, Al Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: > > > > > New unstable ISO of NexentaCP

[zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-22 Thread Erast Benson
/var/lib/apt/* $ sudo apt-get update -- Erast ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-07 Thread Erast Benson
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 16:26 -0400, Francois Saint-Jacques wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:51:08PM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > > More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... > > Is it based on Alpha7? Alpha7 is the Desktop-oriented ISO, however they share the same main

[zfs-discuss] Announcing NexentaCP(b65) with ZFS/Boot integrated installer

2007-06-06 Thread Erast Benson
installer supports ZFS/Boot type of installations on single disk or 2+ mirror configuration. For now, only "Auto" partitioning mode could be used for ZFS root partition creation. More details on NexentaCP will be available soon... -- Erast ___ zfs-

Re: [zfs-discuss] Testing of UFS, VxFS and ZFS

2007-04-16 Thread Erast Benson
be deployed in > their production environments. > > > > Maybe I should be configuring my workload differently for VDBench – if > so, does anyone have any ideas on this? > > > > Unfortunately, I have weeks worth of test data to back up these > numbers and would enjoy the opportunity to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:29 -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 16:22 +, Darren J Moffat wrote: > > Robert Milkowski wrote: > > > Hello devid, > > > > > > Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 3:58:27 PM, you wrote: > > > > > > d>

Re: [zfs-discuss] Data Management API

2007-03-20 Thread Erast Benson
tatus or if someone even started coding it. > > > > Your second question - no, you can't. > > Yes you can and it has been there even before ZFS existed see fsattr(5) > it isn't ZFS specific but a generic attribute extension to the > filesystems, currently supp

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Solaris as a VMWare guest

2007-03-12 Thread Erast Benson
zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Erast ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS as root FS

2006-11-28 Thread Erast Benson
N not > the installer bits - particularly those people interested in building > their own distros of OpenSolaris. +1 SchiliX, BeleniX, Nexenta, Martux have their own installers and boot environments anyways, so would be *really* nice if you guys could open up zfs root ON bits. -- Erast ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: ZFS for Linux 2.6

2006-11-07 Thread Erast Benson
* box. I googled "Minimal > solaris configuration" and found several articles. Alternative way would be to simply use NexentaOS InstallCD and select "Minimal Profile" during installation. -- Erast ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss