Gnome GUI for desktop ZFS administration


On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Blake <blake.ir...@gmail.com> wrote:
> zfs send is great for moving a filesystem with lots of tiny files,
> since it just handles the blocks :)
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> I'd like to see:
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> pool-shrinking (and an option to shrink disk A when i want disk B to
> become a mirror, but A is a few blocks bigger)
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> install to mirror from the liveCD gui
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> zfs recovery tools (sometimes bad things happen)
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> automated installgrub when mirroring an rpool
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> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Richard Elling
> <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> David Magda wrote:
>>>
>>> On Feb 27, 2009, at 18:23, C. Bergström wrote:
>>>
>>>> Blake wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Care to share any of those in advance?  It might be cool to see input
>>>>> from listees and generally get some wheels turning...
>>>>>
>>>> raidz boot support in grub 2 is pretty high on my list to be honest..
>>>>
>>>> Which brings up another question of where is the raidz stuff mostly?
>>>>
>>>> usr/src/uts/common/fs/zfs/vdev_raidz.c ?
>>>>
>>>> Any high level summary, docs or blog entries of what the process would
>>>> look like for a raidz boot support is also appreciated.
>>>
>>> Given the threads that have appeared on this list lately, how about
>>> codifying / standardizing the output of "zfs send" so that it can be backed
>>> up to tape? :)
>>
>> It wouldn't help.  zfs send is a data stream which contains parts of files,
>> not files (in the usual sense), so there is no real way to take a send
>> stream and extract a file, other than by doing a receive.
>>
>> At the risk of repeating the Best Practices Guide (again):
>> The zfs send and receive commands do not provide an enterprise-level backup
>> solution.
>> -- richard
>>
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