Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE filesystem ownership

2006-05-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Roland Mainz wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: James Dickens wrote: I think ZFS should add the concept of ownership to a ZFS filesystem, so if i create a filesystem for joe, he should be able to use his space how ever he see's fit, if he wants to turn on compression or take 5000 snapshots its his

Re: [zfs-discuss] Misc questions

2006-05-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Matthew Ahrens wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:34:30PM -0700, Jeff Victor wrote: * When you share a ZFS fs via NFS, what happens to files and filesystems that exceed the limits of NFS? What limits do you have in mind? I'm not an NFS expert, but I think that NFSv4 (and probably v3) supports

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE filesystem ownership

2006-05-24 Thread Darren Reed
Darren J Moffat wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Darren J Moffat wrote: James Dickens wrote: I think ZFS should add the concept of ownership to a ZFS filesystem, so if i create a filesystem for joe, he should be able to use his space how ever he see's fit, if he wants to turn on compression or

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE filesystem ownership

2006-05-24 Thread Rainer Orth
Mark Shellenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes we do need something like this. This is already covered by the following CRs 6280676, 6421209. These RFE's are currently being investigated. The basic idea is that an adminstrator will be allowed to grant specific users/groups to

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE filesystem ownership

2006-05-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Rainer Orth wrote: Mark Shellenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes we do need something like this. This is already covered by the following CRs 6280676, 6421209. These RFE's are currently being investigated. The basic idea is that an adminstrator will be allowed to grant specific

Re: [zfs-discuss] user undo

2006-05-24 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:22, James Dickens wrote: how about changing the name of the file to uid or username-filename this atleast gets you the ability to let each user the ability to delete there own file, shouldn't be much work. Another possible enhancement would be adding anything field in

Re: [zfs-discuss] New features in Solaris Express 05/06

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Phil, Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 7:28:51 PM, you wrote: PC Will the ability to import a destroyed ZFS pool and the fsstat PC command that's part of the latest Solaris Express release (B38) PC make it into Solaris 10 Update-2 when it's released in PC June/July??? Also has any decision been

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and HSM

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
I said I had several questions to start threads on What about ZFS and various HSM solutions? Do any of them already work with ZFS? Are any going to? It seems like HSM solutions that access things at a file level would have little trouble integrating with ZFS. But ones that work at a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Snapshot / Rollback at a file level

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff Victor
It doesn't sound like they want to use filesystem-mgmt tools, they want to use per-file tools. Wouldn't pax (or cpio) be a better tool to do these things? Scott Dickson wrote: A customer asked today about the ability to snapshot and rollback individual files. They have an environment where

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and HSM

2006-05-24 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:43:54PM -0400, Scott Dickson wrote: I said I had several questions to start threads on What about ZFS and various HSM solutions? Do any of them already work with ZFS? Are any going to? It seems like HSM solutions that access things at a file level would

Re: [zfs-discuss] The 12.5% compression rule

2006-05-24 Thread Bill Moore
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:34:45PM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: Where does the 12.5% compression rule in zio_compress_data() come from ? Given that this is in the generic function for all compression algorithms rather than in the implementation of lzjb I wonder where the number comes from ?

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sequentiality direct access to a file

2006-05-24 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Scott, Wednesday, May 24, 2006, 9:42:06 PM, you wrote: SD How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. SD If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my SD file, right? A customer I talked to recently has a desire to access SD large