Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-21 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:36:22PM -0800, Brandon High wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote: Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-20 Thread Gary Mills
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:59:01AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: Gary Mills wrote: Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All storage management

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-20 Thread Kyle McDonald
On 2/20/2009 9:33 AM, Gary Mills wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 09:59:01AM -0800, Richard Elling wrote: Gary Mills wrote: Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs

[zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread Gary Mills
Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All storage management would take place on the file server, where the physical disks reside. The application

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread Richard Elling
Gary Mills wrote: Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All storage management would take place on the file server, where the physical disks reside.

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread Miles Nordin
gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application gm server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All gm storage management would take place on the file server, where gm the physical disks reside. The application

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread jkait
gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application gm server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All gm storage management would take place on the file server, where gm the physical disks reside. The application

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread Miles Nordin
j == jkait jkait...@gmail.com writes: j [b] The Lustre team, I believe, is looking at porting the DMU j **not** the entire zfs stack. wow. That's even more awesome. In that case, since they are more or less making their own filesystem, maybe it will be natural to validate checksums

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE for two-level ZFS

2009-02-19 Thread Brandon High
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:18 AM, Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote: Should I file an RFE for this addition to ZFS? The concept would be to run ZFS on a file server, exporting storage to an application server where ZFS also runs on top of that storage. All storage management would take