Re: [zfs-discuss] Are media files compressable with ZFS?

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Enright
such as images, mp3s, most video formats, etc. That is akin to zipping a .zip file, and will only waste cpu and memory, considering the compression in those formats will at least be on par with LZH if not better. -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Are media files compressable with ZFS?

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Enright
on Solaris, and have only ever used the SiiG 3114. From what I've read here YMMV... Quick answer though is to download CD1 of the latest release, boot to a shell, and take a look. -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there an idiot's guide to creating network access for users?

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Enright
readable. Then to give the kids access (who are not in group media) let that area be world readable. I don't think you'd need real ACLs until you start adding another level of complexity or two.. What method do you plan to use to provide network access? NFS? Samba? -- Eric Enright

Re: [zfs-discuss] Samba ACLs en ZFS

2007-02-19 Thread Eric Enright
via NFS and exporting /that/ with Samba, which seemed to work fine as far as getting/setting ACLs via Explorer. That is clearly not an optimal solution, however, and I decided that I could live with the real permissions being invisible. -- Eric Enright

Re: [zfs-discuss] Need help making lsof work with ZFS

2007-02-13 Thread Eric Enright
/sadm/install/contents: /usr/include/libzfs.h [...] SUNWhea /usr/include/sys/fs/zfs.h [...] SUNWhea -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Enright
is being worked on though, apparently, so I can wait: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2007-January/051123.html -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] UFS on zvol: volblocksize and maxcontig

2007-01-26 Thread Eric Enright
On 1/26/07, Robert Thurlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Enright wrote: Samba does not currently support ZFS ACLs. Yes, but this just means you can't get/set your ACLs from a CIFS client. ACLs will be enforced just fine once set locally on the server; you may also be able to get/set them

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: can I use zfs on just a partition?

2007-01-25 Thread Eric Enright
:) Does my plan sound feasible from both a usability and performance standpoint? Yes, however 60GB for root/swap is probably overkill. My notebook's setup: s0: 10GB - root s1: 2GB - swap s3: 10GB - root s4: the rest - ZFS (I use s0 and s3 for Live Upgrade) -- Eric Enright

[zfs-discuss] Remote Replication

2006-12-22 Thread Eric Enright
Hi all, I'm currently investigating solutions for disaster recovery, and would like to go with a zfs-based solution. From what I understand, there are two possible methods of achieving this: an iscsi mirror over a WAN link, and remote replication with incremental zfs send/recv. Due to

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Mac - new sighting

2006-12-18 Thread Eric Enright
, but I'm open to anonymous comments ;-) . If you want some anonymous comments, you can go here :) http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/18/1155226from=rss -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Size of raidz

2006-11-06 Thread Eric Enright
) on the filesystem level. That is, if you write a ~66MB file, in actuality you use ~100MB of pool space. Modest tests I did just now with a new raidz pool support this. Someone please correct me if I am wrong. -- Eric Enright ___ zfs-discuss mailing list