Re: [zfs-discuss] cluster vs nfs (was: Re: ZFS on Linux vs FreeBSD)

2012-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
is available on all machines/nodes. -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple's ZFS-alike - Re: Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-16 Thread Rich Teer
get off the pot and officially adopy ZFS. I mean, they've embraced DTrace, so what's stopping them from using ZFS too? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple's ZFS-alike - Re: Does raidzN actually protect against bitrot? If yes - how?

2012-01-16 Thread Rich Teer
. 10's Complement (?) are planning such a thing, although I have no idea on their pricing. The software is still in development. -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine

[zfs-discuss] S10 version question

2011-09-29 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, Got a quick question: what are the latest zpool and zfs versions supported in Solaris 10 Update 10? TIA, -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] 350TB+ storage solution

2011-05-18 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 18 May 2011, Chris Mosetick wrote: to go in the packing dept. I still love their prices! There's a reason fort at: you don't get what you don't pay for! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Recommended eSATA PCI cards

2011-05-06 Thread Rich Teer
are people recommending? I need to attach at least two drives (I'll be mirroring them), preferably three or more. The machines are currently running SXCE snv_b130, with an upgrade to Solaris Express 11 not too far away. Thanks! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-04 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 4 May 2011, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: I suspect you're using a junky 1G slow-as-dirt usb thumb drive. Nope--unless an IOMega Prestige Desktop Hard Drive (containing an Hitachi 7200K RPM hard drive with 32MB of cache) counts as a slow as dirt USB thumb drive! -- Rich Teer, Publisher

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-04 Thread Rich Teer
next to $0 budget... -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-03 Thread Rich Teer
attached disk. The machine to which both pools are connected is a Sun Blade 1000 with a pair of 900 MHz US-III CPUs and 2 GB of RAM. The HBA is Sun's dual differential UltraSCSI PCI card. The machine was relatively quiescent apart from doing the local zfs send | zfs recv. -- Rich Teer, Publisher

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick zfs send -i performance questions

2011-05-03 Thread Rich Teer
small amount of data). True, but the SB1000 only supports 2GB of RAM IIRC! I'll soon be migrating this machine's duties to an Ultra 20 M2. A faster CPU and 4 GB should make an noticable improvement (not to mention, on board USB 2.0 ports). Thanks for you ideas! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile

Re: [zfs-discuss] External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-27 Thread Rich Teer
for expansion. Again, I'm looking for a JBOD coz I want ZFS do all the work. What about an inexpensive SAS card (eg: Supermicro AOC-USAS-L4i) and external SAS enclosure (eg: Sans Digital TowerRAID TR4X). It would cost about $350 for the setup. Oooh, that's worth looking at too. Thanks! -- Rich

[zfs-discuss] External SATA drive enclosures + ZFS?

2011-02-25 Thread Rich Teer
on the surface, the USB attached drives would seem to be MUCH faster... Many thanks for any pointers received, -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-29 Thread Rich Teer
the window that has input focus things I'd be really happy.. -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010, erik.ableson wrote: And for reference, I have a number of 10.6 clients using NFS for sharing Fusion virtual machines, iTunes library, iPhoto libraries etc. without any issues. Excellent; what OS is your NFS server running? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-09-16 Thread Rich Teer
; perhaps lockd is the same? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-08 Thread Rich Teer
for a compelling SOHO server. The lack of ZFS is the main thing holding me back here... -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
with that! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-25 Thread Rich Teer
based. Please feel free to join up to the mailing list from the project page if you're interested in ZFS on Mac OSX. I tried going to that URL, but got a 404 error... :-( What's the correct one, please? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
direct attach and iSCSI zvol with pool and FS created locally. Ah. The file systems I'm trying to use are locally attached to the server, and shared via NFS. Does anyone else have any ideas? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
seconds: cp file_without_EA /net/zen/export/home/rich cp file_with_EA /net/zen/export/home/rich nfs server zen:/export/home: lockd not responding Note that the first cp is successful. So, is there some server-side magic I need to configure? And if so, what is it? -- Rich Teer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
), but of course, none of the files shown atually have extended attributes... -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X clients with ZFS server

2010-04-22 Thread Rich Teer
/export/home' from 'zen:/export/home', not responding KernelEventAgent[36]: tid found 1 filesystem(s) with problem(s) Does that shed any morelight on this? -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] RAID10

2010-03-26 Thread Rich Teer
drive8 Isn't ZFS great?! -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] Quick dedup question

2009-11-07 Thread Rich Teer
Congrats for integrating dedup! Quick question: in what build of Nevada will dedep first be found? b126 is the current one presently. Cheers, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer

Re: [zfs-discuss] heads up on SXCE build 125 (LU + mirrored root pools)

2009-11-05 Thread Rich Teer
, or is the problem specific to b125? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] The importance of ECC RAM for ZFS

2009-07-24 Thread Rich Teer
undetected memories cost an organisation? That's the true cost of skimping on memory by using non-ECC RAM, IMHO. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs on 32 bit?

2009-06-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, roland wrote: so, we have a 128bit fs, but only support for 1tb on 32bit? i`d call that a bug, isn`t it ? is there a bugid for this? ;) I'd say the bug in this instance is using a 32-bit platform in 2009! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, dick hoogendijk wrote: IF at all, it certainly should not be the DEFAULT. Compression is a choice, nothing more. I respectfully disagree somewhat. Yes, compression shuould be a choice, but I think the default should be for it to be enabled. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA

Re: [zfs-discuss] compression at zfs filesystem creation

2009-06-15 Thread Rich Teer
that the compression/decompression uses CPU, but most systems have an abundance of CPU, especially when performing I/O. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] Apple Removes Nearly All Reference To ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Rich Teer
It's not pertinent to this sub-thread, but zfs (albeit read-only) is already in currently shipping MacOS 10.5. SO presumably it'll be in MacOS 10.6... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer

[zfs-discuss] Quick adding devices question

2009-05-29 Thread Rich Teer
mirror c1t0d0 c2t0d0 mirror c1t1d0 c2t1d0 mirror c1t2d0 c2t2d0 Is that correct? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick adding devices question

2009-05-29 Thread Rich Teer
will be using hot spares (one per side), but I'll have a close look at the docs later. Thanks for the quick help, everyone! -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer ___ zfs-discuss mailing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Quick adding devices question

2009-05-29 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 29 May 2009, cindy.swearin...@sun.com wrote: Hi Rich, Yes, your zpool syntax is correct. I just tested what I think is your final configuration. Great (gotta love ZFS)! Many thanks, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Compression/copies on root pool RFE

2009-05-06 Thread Rich Teer
flexibility can pick default whereas others who want more flexibility (but still want or need an interactive installation) can pick the custom option. Just a thought... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer

[zfs-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on ZFS root?

2009-02-25 Thread Rich Teer
in thinking that this will be OK for the branded zones? That is, they don't care about the underlying file system type? Or am I stuck with using UFS for the root file systems of Solaris 8 and 9 branded zones? (I sure hpoe not!) Many TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA URLs: http://www.rite

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zones-discuss] Solaris 8/9 branded zones on ZFS root?

2009-02-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Timothy Kennedy wrote: That's correct. I have some solaris 8 zones running under cluster control, where zonepath is zfs, and they're doing just fine. Nothing special had to be done. Excellent! Just the news I was hoping for. Thanks again, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA

Re: [zfs-discuss] Separate /var

2008-11-27 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008, Edward Irvine wrote: What are others doing in this space? Educate them how the world has changed! A separate /var is even less necessary with ZFS than with UFS. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is ZFS already the default file System for Solaris 10?

2008-11-07 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Kumar, Amit H. wrote: Is ZFS already the default file System for Solaris 10? ZFS isn't the default file system for Solaris 10, but it is selectable as the root file system with the most recent update. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs boot / root in Nevada build 101

2008-10-29 Thread Rich Teer
. You have to use the text installer (rather than the default GUI one). Part way through the process you will be offered a choice of UFS or ZFS root file system (UFS is the default still). Select ZFS and away you go! -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Comments on green-bytes

2008-10-06 Thread Rich Teer
there are closed patches that go into mainline Solaris, but are not part of OpenSolaris. The closed code will be in separate files to those covered by the CDDL. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Which is better for root ZFS: mlc or slc SSD?

2008-09-24 Thread Rich Teer
in my Ferrari 3400. It was SIGNIFICANTLY faster than the 7200RPM spinning rust it replaced (which was no slouch itself). times/etc of the drives, I'm just wondering about general tech for an OS boot drive usage...) FWIW, I'd say go with SLC. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot and LU

2008-08-26 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, Would I be correct in thinking that LiveUpgrade plays nicely with ZFS boot, now that the latter is integrated into Nevada? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best layout for 15 disks?

2008-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
; it only recently integrated into Nevada, but it has been in use for quite some time now. I was told to partition this way to make liveupgrade easy: / /lu = identical space as / swap Even better: just use ZFS root and let it handle the details. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online

Re: [zfs-discuss] GUI support for ZFS root?

2008-08-14 Thread Rich Teer
future direction for Solaris. Based on what I've heard, I've not tried the latter. If I wanted Linux I'd use Linux. But for the foreseeable future, I'm sticking to SXCE. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http

[zfs-discuss] GUI support for ZFS root?

2008-08-12 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, I recently installed b95 and ZFS root is great! I used the CLI installer because I remember reading that the GUI installer doesn't yet support ZFS root. So my question is, what's the ETA for support in the GUI installer for ZFS root? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My

Re: [zfs-discuss] GUI support for ZFS root?

2008-08-12 Thread Rich Teer
(I use SXCE in preference to that which was previously known as Project Indiana)? Thanks again, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs and 2530 jbod

2008-07-16 Thread Rich Teer
/2007/04/close-but-no-cigar.html and http://richteer.blogspot.com/2006/05/sun-storage-product-i-would-like-to.html :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Largest (in number of files) ZFS instance tested

2008-07-11 Thread Rich Teer
the performance ramifications are. Wow. Just curious, what sort of application is this? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-24 Thread Rich Teer
uptimes were to be achieved. With today's huge boot disks, I think the practise is somewhat deprecated. The untrue myth about systems panicing when / can't be written to because its full doesn't help, either... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] [SOLVED] USB hard to ZFS

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Andrius wrote: After commenting # kill -HUP 'pgrep vold' kill: invalid id We're in the 21st century, so # pkill -HUP vold should work just fine. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http

[zfs-discuss] Boot from mirrored vdev

2008-06-12 Thread Rich Teer
, will the machine panic? Cheers, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-05 Thread Rich Teer
, not disk-resident. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Get your SXCE on ZFS here!

2008-06-05 Thread Rich Teer
doab for years? swap -a is your friend. But yeah, ZFS root rocks! -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-04 Thread Rich Teer
. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-04 Thread Rich Teer
can they have different assigned quotas without one inheriting limits from the other? Why would one do that? Just keep an eye on the root pool and all is good. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] new install - when is zfs root offered? (snv_90)

2008-06-03 Thread Rich Teer
ZFS root will be offered in the GUI installer? (I recently installed Build 89 and was surprised by the lack of ZFS pools after installation using the GUI installer.) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] What is a vdev?

2008-05-21 Thread Rich Teer
? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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

2008-05-20 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 20 May 2008, Tom Buskey wrote: Regardless, ZFS is compelling enought that I'd like it everywhere. Agreed--but not at the expense of changing its (ZFS') license. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking a zpool?

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Brad Bender wrote: Solaris 10 update 5 was released 05/2008, but no zpool shrink :-( Any update? IIRC, the ability to shrink a pool isn't even in Nevada yet, so it'll be *some time* before it'll be in an S10 update... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA CEO, My Online Home

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Sun X2100?

2008-03-19 Thread Rich Teer
SVM, and everything else on a mirrored ZFS pool. HTH, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-26 Thread Rich Teer
you to reduce the daily backup size but still gives you the ability to restore single files? Both: I'd like to be able to restore single files from both a full and incremental backup of a ZFS file system. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-24 Thread Rich Teer
accidentally delete a couple of those files; it is very desirable to be able to restore just a certain named subset of the files in an archive rather than having to restore the whole archive. I'm looking for a tool that can do that. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-24 Thread Rich Teer
to the current directory. Ah ha! Excellent! Thanks for the pointer. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-23 Thread Rich Teer
an archive, without having to restore the whole archive, like one can do with ufsrestore. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

[zfs-discuss] Preferred backup s/w

2008-02-21 Thread Rich Teer
Hi all, What is the current preferred method for backing up ZFS data pools, preferably using free ($0.00) software, and assuming that access to individual files (a la ufsbackup/ufsrestore) is required? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] pls discontinue troll bait was: Yager on ZFS and ZFS

2007-11-17 Thread Rich Teer
, baffle them with bullshit school of thought. I'd take the word of any number of people on this list over yours, anyday. HAND, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.linkedin.com/in/richteer http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sun's storage product roadmap?

2007-10-15 Thread Rich Teer
! :-) (An even smaller JBOD 1U box would also be nice...) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Apple WWDC Keynote Absence

2007-06-12 Thread Rich Teer
engineers did most of the work. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread Rich Teer
that any changes you make to CDDLed files must be made available under the CDDL. If Apple create a NEW source file, then yes, it is possible that they wouldn't release the source for that file; the CDDL permits this. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving files over with ufsrestore not that simple

2007-06-07 Thread Rich Teer
[ 1181250128 ] 8339: ct = Jun 7 23:02:08 CEST 2007 [ 1181250128 ] 8339: bsz=2560 blks=3 fs=zfs Blocksize of 2560?? Hmm. 2560 = 2048 + 512; dunno if that i simportant or not... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on the desktop

2007-04-17 Thread Rich Teer
personally is the ease of creating mirrors, but granted that's on my servers rather than my desktop.) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-13 Thread Rich Teer
of the people who chose the GPL for their code don't really know why they're doing so, apart from the fact that it's a well-known open source license, and everyone else does it. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-12 Thread Rich Teer
to imply that the GPL is NOT viral in nature? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-11 Thread Rich Teer
copyright holder, many of whom may not be able to be tracked down or give their consent. So in practical terms, the license for Linux CAN'T be changed: they're stuck with it (it being GPLv2). -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-11 Thread Rich Teer
compatibility with original? The short answer is: seek professional legal council. The longer answer, bearing in mind that IANAL, is that yes, a clean room implementation would be legal. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-11 Thread Rich Teer
and satisfaction. Solaris may be the only credible competitor Linux has left, which will keep it honest. :) I prefer to think of it the other way round. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Linux

2007-04-11 Thread Rich Teer
on Solaris. Indeed. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

[zfs-discuss] Renaming a pool?

2007-04-10 Thread Rich Teer
. Is that the best (or even only) way? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Renaming a pool?

2007-04-10 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Mark J Musante wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Rich Teer wrote: I have a pool called tank/home/foo and I want to rename it to tank/home/bar. What's the best way to do this (the zfs and zpool man pages don't have a rename option)? In fact, there is a rename option

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS committed to the FreeBSD base.

2007-04-05 Thread Rich Teer
: Dual licensing? We don't need no stinkeen dual licensing!. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OGB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] gzip compression support

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Adam Leventhal wrote: I recently integrated this fix into ON: 6536606 gzip compression for ZFS Cool! Can you recall into which build it went? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: /tmp on ZFS?

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
of VM /tmp can use. Is this dangerous given the server profile? Am i missing something Dangerous? I think not. But most likely suboptimal. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: /tmp on ZFS?

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
potentially be sharing the slice, so yes, that's possible. If your (say) 1GB /tmp becomes full, only 7GB will remain for paging. However, if /tmp is empty, the whole 8GB will be available for paging. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: /tmp on ZFS?

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
tmpfs - yes size=1024m -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich http://www.myonlinehomeinventory.com ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: /tmp on ZFS?

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Matt B wrote: And just doing this will automatically target my /tmp at my 8GB swap slice on s1 as well as placing the quota in place? After a reboot, yes. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: /tmp on ZFS?

2007-03-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Matt B wrote: Oh, one other thing...s1 (8GB swap) is part of an SVM mirror (on d1) That's not relevant in this case. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member CEO, My Online Home Inventory Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URLs: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-02-21 Thread Rich Teer
helped find (and repair) corruption in such setups? (But yeah, I agree the ability to shrink a pool is important.) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

[zfs-discuss] Preferred ZFS backup solution

2007-02-15 Thread Rich Teer
to restore the whole thing? TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
the GUI? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zones-discuss] Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-08 Thread Rich Teer
up a spare monitor and keyboard to it. But connecting a monitor and keyboard directly to a server just feels ... wrong. But then I'm an old-school SPARC guy, so I guess that's not too surprising! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1

[zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Teer
installation. TIA, -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Downsides to zone roots on ZFS?

2007-02-07 Thread Rich Teer
for answering my question. Hopefully my noisy X4200 will be installed in the data centre tomorrow (Thursday); I had a set back today while fighting with the Remote Console feature of ILOM 1.1.1 (i.e., it doesn't work). :-( -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Teer
by their servers... -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Teer
are the champions And what do M$ users have? Courtesy of the Rolling Stones: * (I can't get) no satisfaction * 19th Nervous breakdown :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Bryan Cantrill wrote: I think it's safe to say that Fowler was thinking more along the lines Presumably, that's John Fowler? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Rich Teer
a place to put my bits. Doesn't need to be the fastest, bleeding edge stuff. Just a bucket that performs reasonably, and preferably one that I can use with ZFS. +1 -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-20 Thread Rich Teer
enough. Couldn't agree more. -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: External drive enclosures + Sun Server for massstorage

2007-01-20 Thread Rich Teer
and one of those drives dies, can I take out and replace the defective drive without down time? -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on my iPhone?

2007-01-09 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Richard Elling wrote: So, does anyone know if I can run ZFS on my iPhone? ;-) Sure--provided it has at least 1GB of RAM for the file system cache. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCSA, SCNA, SCSECA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http

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