[zfs-discuss] one time passwords - apache infrastructure incident report 8/28/2009

2009-09-04 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, Just be reading about apache.org incident report for 8/28/2009 ( https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_downtime_report ) The use of Solaris and ZFS on the European server was interesting including the recovery. However, what I found more interesting was the use of one time passwo

Re: [zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread russell aspinwall
Thanks for clearing up the issue -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] the antithesis of zfs

2009-08-13 Thread russell aspinwall
Are tools necessary to ensure that deleted ZFS pools can not be recovered or that deleted filesystems are really deleted? If the current delete commands do offer some level of data recovery, is worth offering a destroy command which deletes and ensures no means of recovery other than a backup?

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs Linux

2008-12-09 Thread russell aspinwall
Hi, A couple of years ago I compared Solaris 10 and XP x64 on the same hardware (dual opteron) running the same analytical cases. Each OS had a clean install before use :- Case CPU time System Time Lapse Bits OS No Secs Secs hh:mm:ss 1 5890

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS snapshot GUI

2007-11-22 Thread Russell Aspinwall
Hi, In respect of snapshots :- a) should the snapshot process it self be modified to allow restoring of individual files via zfs rollback b) should there be a zfs rollfile to selectively restore files from a snapshot c) should there be a zfs purge which would allow file(s) to be removed fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-11-12 Thread Russell Aspinwall
James C. McPherson wrote: > can you guess? wrote: > ... > >> Ah - thanks to both of you. My own knowledge of video format internals >> is so limited that I assumed most people here would be at least equally >> familiar with the notion that a flipped bit or two in a video would >> hardly qualify

[zfs-discuss] zfs receive

2007-06-23 Thread Russell Aspinwall
Hi, As part of a disk subsystem upgrade I am thinking of using ZFS but there are two issues at present 1) The current filesystems are mounted as  /hostname/mountpoint except for one directory where the mount point is /.    Is is possible to mount a ZFS filesystem as /hostname// so that /ho