Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Drive Failure w/o Redundancy

2007-06-28 Thread Erik Trimble
Richard Elling wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: If you had known about the drive sizes beforehand, the you could have done something like this: Partition the drives as follows: A: 1 20GB partition B: 1 20gb 1 10GB partition C: 1 40GB partition D: 1 40GB partition 2 10GB paritions then you

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
Oliver Schinagl wrote: The only thing I haven't found in zfs yet, is metadata etc info. The previous 'next best thing' in FS was of course ReiserFS (4). Reiser3 was quite a nice thing, fast, journaled and all that, but Reiser4 promised to bring all those things that we see emerging now, like

[zfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-code] Space allocation failure

2007-06-28 Thread Manoj Joseph
Manoj Joseph wrote: Hi, In brief, what I am trying to do is to use libzpool to access a zpool - like ztest does. [snip] No, AFAIK, the pool is not damaged. But yes, it looks like the device can't be written to by the userland zfs. Well, I might have figured out something. Turssing the

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Selim Daoud
superbe job...synaptic package manager is really impressive is there a way to transform Sun package to a synaptic package? selim On 6/22/07, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Erast Benson wrote: New unstable ISO of NexentaCP (Core Platform) available.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Wade . Stuart
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/27/2007 06:25:47 PM: The only thing I haven't found in zfs yet, is metadata etc info. The previous 'next best thing' in FS was of course ReiserFS (4). Reiser3 was quite a nice thing, fast, journaled and all that, but Reiser4 promised to bring all those

Re: [zfs-discuss] NexentaCP Beta1-test2 (ZFS/Boot - manual partitioning support)

2007-06-28 Thread Erast Benson
just use pkgadd -d wrapper. it will auto-magically convert SVR4 package to the .deb(s) and install them on the fly. You can also use pkgrm to remove them. pkginfo wrapper is also available. On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 16:38 +0200, Selim Daoud wrote: superbe job...synaptic package manager is really

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28-Jun-07, at 11:37 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/27/2007 06:25:47 PM: The only thing I haven't found in zfs yet, is metadata etc info. The previous 'next best thing' in FS was of course ReiserFS (4). Reiser3 was quite a nice thing, fast, journaled

[zfs-discuss] zfs disk encryption

2007-06-28 Thread Selim Daoud
zfs encryption has been updated ...just in case http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zfs-crypto/plan/ s. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Design Review

2007-06-28 Thread Darren J Moffat
The ZFS Crypto project is nearing completion of the design for phase 1. A two week design review will be held starting with the publication of the phase 1 design document on Monday 2nd July. I will also arrange a 1hr conference call to discuss issues interactively. Details of where to find

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I guess the userdefinable properties is then what i'm looking for. Well not what *I* am looking for perse. i was reading the article on Hans Reiser, the one over at wired, good read btw, (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/ff_hansreiser?currentPage=1). Somewhere it stated that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: [zfs-code] Space allocation failure

2007-06-28 Thread Manoj Joseph
Manoj Joseph wrote: Manoj Joseph wrote: Hi, In brief, what I am trying to do is to use libzpool to access a zpool - like ztest does. [snip] No, AFAIK, the pool is not damaged. But yes, it looks like the device can't be written to by the userland zfs. Well, I might have figured out

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Toby Thain
On 28-Jun-07, at 4:46 PM, Oliver Schinagl wrote: I guess the userdefinable properties is then what i'm looking for. Well not what *I* am looking for perse. i was reading the article on Hans Reiser, the one over at wired, good read btw,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Oh i just ment it was generally a good read :) Nicely written and the likes. It just mentions a little part about RFS4 and that the 'new' thing introduced by RFS4 was the ability to search through the metadata extremly fast. Personally, I don't really use all this search nonsense. Wait, that's a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Wade . Stuart
I guess my real question should have been, IF it turns out that quick indexing and the like are really the next hot thing, would ZFS support it (yes from what i gathered earlier on this list). rant modeCome to think of it, the biggest difference of putting this info in the FS layer or