Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

2007-12-08 Thread Mick Russom
Are there benchmarks somewhere showing a RAID10 implemented on an LSI card with, say, 128MB of cache being beaten in terms of performance by a similar zraid configuration with no cache on the drive controller? Somehow I don't think they exist. I'm all for data scrubbing, but this

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: NTFS Single Instance Storage (Re: Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread can you guess?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Darren, Do you happen to have any links for this? I have not seen anything about NTFS and CAS/dedupe besides some of the third party apps/services that just use NTFS as their backing store. Single Instance Storage is what Microsoft uses to refer to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread can you guess?
from the description here http://www.djesys.com/vms/freevms/mentor/rms.html so who cares here ? RMS is not a filesystem, but more a CAS type of data repository Since David begins his description with the statement RMS stands for Record Management Services. It is the underlying file

Re: [zfs-discuss] Odd prioritisation issues.

2007-12-08 Thread Dickon Hood
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 05:27:25 -0800, Anton B. Rang wrote: : I was under the impression that real-time processes essentially trump all : others, and I'm surprised by this behaviour; I had a dozen or so RT-processes : sat waiting for disc for about 20s. : Process priorities on Solaris affect

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread Selim Daoud
from the description here http://www.djesys.com/vms/freevms/mentor/rms.html so who cares here ? RMS is not a filesystem, but more a CAS type of data repository On Dec 8, 2007 7:04 AM, Anton B. Rang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NOTHING anton listed takes the place of ZFS That's not surprising,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mail system errors (On Topic).

2007-12-08 Thread Tim Spriggs
Yet another prime example. can you guess? wrote: Please see below for an example. Ah - I see that you'd rather be part of the problem than part of the solution. Perhaps you're also one of those knuckle-draggers who believes that a woman with the temerity to leave her home after

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread Selim Daoud
can you run a database on RMS? I guess its not suited we are already trying to get ride of a 15 years old filesystem called wafl, and a 10 years old file system called Centera, so do you thing we are going to consider a 35 years old filesystem now... computer science made a lot of improvement

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seperate ZIL

2007-12-08 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 03:27:33PM -0800, Scott Laird wrote: MAX3xxxRC (where xxx represents the size) and you'll be wearing a big smile every time you work on a system so equipped. Hmmm, on second glace, 36G versions of that seem to be going for $40. Do you mean $140, or am I missing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Seperate ZIL

2007-12-08 Thread Tim Cook
http://www.itovernight.com/store/comersus_viewItem.asp ?idProduct=866720 Fly by night from the looks of it. http://www.resellerratings.com/store/IToverNight $140 looks like bottom dollar from anywhere reputable (which is more in line with what I would expect).

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mail system errors (On Topic).

2007-12-08 Thread can you guess?
Yet another prime example. Ah - yet another brave denizen (and top-poster) who's more than happy to dish it out but squeals for administrative protection when receiving a response in kind. The fact that your pleas seem to be going unanswered actually reflects rather well on whoever is

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread can you guess?
can you run a database on RMS? As well as you could on must Unix file systems. And you've been able to do so for almost three decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix environment). I guess its not suited And you guess wrong: that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
can you guess? wrote: can you run a database on RMS? As well as you could on must Unix file systems. And you've been able to do so for almost three decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix environment). Funny, I remember

Re: [zfs-discuss] Yager on ZFS

2007-12-08 Thread can you guess?
can you guess? wrote: can you run a database on RMS? As well as you could on must Unix file systems. And you've been able to do so for almost three decades now (whereas features like asynchronous and direct I/O are relative newcomers in the Unix environment). nny, I