Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] Petabyte pool?

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Cook
the intelligence built in to stagger drive spin-up. I wouldn't spend money on one that didn't. There's really no need to stagger the JBOD power-up at the PDU. As for the head, yes it should have a delayed power on which you can typically set in the BIOS. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-27 Thread Tim Cook
that production ready. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-26 Thread Tim Cook
they currently are). I'd avoid deduplication unless you absolutely need it... it's still a bit of a kludge. Stick to compression and your world will be a much happier place. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-25 Thread Tim Cook
looking for. None of them will provide SMB3 (at all) or AFP (without a third party package). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Distro Advice

2013-02-25 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Volker A. Brandt v...@bb-c.de wrote: Tim Cook writes: I need something that will allow me to share files over SMB (3 if possible), NFS, AFP (for Time Machine) and iSCSI. Ideally, i would like something i can manage easily and something that works

Re: [zfs-discuss] Feature Request for zfs pool/filesystem protection?

2013-02-21 Thread Tim Cook
, the snapshot will become an issue very quickly. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Feature Request for zfs pool/filesystem protection?

2013-02-20 Thread Tim Cook
for existing datasets, and it can absolutely help prevent a fat finger or a lack of caffeine ruining someone's day. If the feature is already there somewhere, I'm sure someone will chime in. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Feature Request for zfs pool/filesystem protection?

2013-02-20 Thread Tim Cook
change your mind later you have to go back through and give everyone you want to have that feature access to it. That seems like a complete PITA to me. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] Is there performance penalty when adding vdev to existing pool

2013-02-20 Thread Tim Cook
That depends entirely on how full the pool is when the new vdev is added, and how frequently the older data changes, snapshots, etc. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Feature Request for zfs pool/filesystem protection?

2013-02-20 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:27 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Markus Grundmann mar...@freebsduser.eu wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] Why would I spend all that time and energy participating in ANOTHER list controlled by Oracle, when

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Tim Cook
decision, yes. Not to poke fun, but did you really expect an official response after YEARS of nothing from Oracle? This is the same company that refused to release any Java patches until the DHS issued a national warning suggesting that everyone uninstall Java. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] That would be the logical decision, yes. Not to poke fun, but did you really expect an official

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs-discuss mailing list opensolaris EOL

2013-02-16 Thread Tim Cook
corporate policy allow you to. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] maczfs / ZEVO

2013-02-15 Thread Tim Cook
showstoppers I'm sure I'd have heard loud complaints by now :) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS monitoring

2013-02-11 Thread Tim Cook
suggestions to improve it? What other variables can be interesting? An example of the current state of the program is here: http://devilator.frobula.com Thanks, Borja. The zpool iostat output has all sorts of statistics I think would be useful/interesting to record over time. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Un-dedup for unique blocks

2013-01-20 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: On Jan 20, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Edward Harvey imaginat...@nedharvey.com wrote: But, by talking about it, we're just smoking pipe dreams. Cuz we all know zfs is developmentally challenged now. But one can dream...

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-09 Thread Tim Fletcher
on IT firmware. The Dell method is more involved but it's the only why that I've managed to got a Dell H200 cross flashed. Seems like the M1015 has spiked in price again on eBay (US) whilst the H200 is still under $100. -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk

Re: [zfs-discuss] HP Proliant DL360 G7

2013-01-09 Thread Tim Fletcher
. The HP H221 is the newer SAS2008 based HBA that replaces the SC08Ge, it's definitely a pure HBA as I have one but I don't have any external disk shelves to test with currently. http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14222_div/14222_div.html -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-07 Thread Tim Fletcher
to get LSI firmware and reflash Dell H310. I've successfully crossflashed Dell H200 cards with this method http://forums.servethehome.com/showthread.php?467-DELL-H200-Flash-to-IT-firmware-Procedure-for-DELL-servers -- Tim Fletcher t...@night-shade.org.uk

Re: [zfs-discuss] Has anyone used a Dell with a PERC H310?

2013-01-07 Thread Tim Fletcher
On 07/01/13 21:16, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 01/07/2013 09:32 PM, Tim Fletcher wrote: On 07/01/13 14:01, Andrzej Sochon wrote: Hello *Sašo*! I found you here: http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2012-May/051546.html “How about reflashing LSI firmware to the card? I read on Dell's

Re: [zfs-discuss] dm-crypt + ZFS on Linux

2012-11-23 Thread Tim Cook
you just use a SAN that supports full drive encryption? There should be basically 0 performance overhead. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Appliance as a general-purpose server question

2012-11-22 Thread Tim Cook
. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot replace X with Y: devices have different sector alignment

2012-11-12 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Trond Michelsen tron...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Jan Owoc jso...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Trond Michelsen tron...@gmail.com wrote: How can I

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot replace X with Y: devices have different sector alignment

2012-11-10 Thread Tim Cook
bp_rewrite and the guys who have the skills to do so saying their enterprise customers have other needs* --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot replace X with Y: devices have different sector alignment

2012-11-10 Thread Tim Cook
take downtime. Likely impossible for OP with 42 large drives. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

2012-10-21 Thread Tim Cook
choice at 4Gb+ Here's a list of all the old Sun FC HBAs (which can help you sort out which are for x64 systems, and which were for SPARC systems): http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/oracle-storage-networking-190061.html As Tim said, these should all have built-in drivers

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

2012-10-20 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 10/20/2012 01:10 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Arne Jansen sensi...@gmx.net mailto:sensi...@gmx.net wrote: On 10/19/2012 09:58 PM, Matthew Ahrens wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5

Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

2012-10-20 Thread Tim Cook
The built in drivers support Mpha so you're good to go. On Friday, October 19, 2012, Christof Haemmerle wrote: Yep i Need. 4 Gig with multipathing if possible. On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 't...@cook.ms'); wrote: On Friday, October 19

Re: [zfs-discuss] [zfs] portable zfs send streams (preview webrev)

2012-10-19 Thread Tim Cook
come up with something. Are you planning on this being solely for ZFS, or a larger architecture for replication both directions in the future? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] FC HBA for openindiana

2012-10-19 Thread Tim Cook
On Friday, October 19, 2012, Christof Haemmerle wrote: hi there, i need to connect some old raid subsystems to a opensolaris box via fibre channel. can you recommend any FC HBA? thanx __ How old? If its 1gbit you'll need a 4gb or slower hba. Qlogic would be

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best way to measure performance of ZIL

2012-10-01 Thread Tim Swast
On 10/01/2012 09:09 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Just perform a bunch of writes, time it. Then set sync=disabled, perform the same set of writes, time it. Then enable sync, add a ZIL device, time it. The third option will be somewhere in between the first

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-09-27 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensola...@nedharvey.com wrote: From: Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 3:45 PM I would suggest if you're doing a crossover between

Re: [zfs-discuss] vm server storage mirror

2012-09-26 Thread Tim Cook
infiniband rather than ethernet. You can eBay a 40Gb IB card for under $300. Quite frankly the performance issues should become almost a non-factor at that point. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Question about ZFS snapshots

2012-09-20 Thread Tim Cook
data protection it's a point in time copy. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-18 Thread Tim Cook
no universally false. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZIL devices and fragmentation

2012-07-30 Thread Tim Cook
+1-760-896-4422 I would think a flag to allow you to automatically continue with a disclaimer might be warranted (default behavior obviously requiring human input). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] New fast hash algorithm - is it needed?

2012-07-12 Thread Tim Cook
. The PETABYTES of data Quantum and DataDomain have out there are proof positive that complex hashes get the job done without verify, even if you don't want to acknowledge the math behind it. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Two disks giving errors in a raidz pool, advice needed

2012-04-24 Thread Tim Cook
on Sunday's or something so that you at least make it through the whole dataset at least once a month. There's no reason NOT to scrub that I can think of other than the overhead - which shouldn't matter if you're doing it during off hours. --Tim ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Aaron Toponce: Install ZFS on Debian GNU/Linux

2012-04-18 Thread Tim Cook
Oracle never promised anything. A leaked internal memo does not signify an official company policy or statement. On Apr 18, 2012 11:13 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com wrote: Hmmm, how come they have

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Tim Cook
. Deaf ears :/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Drive upgrades

2012-04-13 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: You will however have an issue replacing them if one should fail. You need to have the same block count to replace a device, which is why I asked

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and spread-spares (kinda like GPFS declustered RAID)?

2012-01-07 Thread Tim Cook
/illumos-User-Group/events/41665962/ As always, feel free to tell me why my rant is completely off base ;) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] S11 vs illumos zfs compatiblity

2012-01-05 Thread Tim Cook
exactly is the deal with the zfs discuss mailing list? There's all of 3 posts that show up for all of 2011. Am I missing something, or is there just that little traction currently? http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182191/sort/time_rev/ --Tim ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Recovery: What do I try next?

2011-12-22 Thread Tim Cook
clear, very quickly that something was wrong. http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2008/03/01/configuring-zfs-to-gracefully-deal-with-failures/ --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I create a mirror for a root rpool?

2011-12-15 Thread Tim Cook
Do you still need to do the grub install? On Dec 15, 2011 5:40 PM, Cindy Swearingen cindy.swearin...@oracle.com wrote: Hi Anon, The disk that you attach to the root pool will need an SMI label and a slice 0. The syntax to attach a disk to create a mirrored root pool is like this, for

Re: [zfs-discuss] slow zfs send/recv speed

2011-11-15 Thread Tim Cook
is for you. -- Andrew Gabriel So all the bugs have been fixed? I seem to recall people on this mailing list using mbuff to speed it up because it was so bursty and slow at one point. IE: http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2010/07/using-mbuffer-to-speed-up-slow-zfs-send-zfs-receive/ --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
in most environments. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Kees Nuyt k.n...@zonnet.nl wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:05:29 -0500, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Doesn't a scrub do more than what 'fsck' does? Not really. fsck will work on an offline filesystem to correct errors and bring it back online. Scrub

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: Every scrub I've ever done that has found an error required manual fixing. Every pool I've ever created has been raid-z or raid-z2, so the silent

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-18 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Peter Tribble peter.trib...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-15 Thread Tim Cook
never be the building block for a vmware cluster in the first place. I would start by rethinking that decision instead of trying to pound a round ZFS peg into a square hole. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-14 Thread Tim Cook
disks, and let that server take care of RAID and presenting out the storage to the rests of the vmware hosts. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Kernel panic on zpool import. 200G of data inaccessible!

2011-08-19 Thread Tim Cook
employees want to lose their job and subsequently be subjected to a lawsuit. If that's what you're planning on waiting for, I'd suggest you take a new approach. Sorry to be a downer, but that's reality. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS performance question over NFS

2011-08-18 Thread Tim Cook
What are the specs on the client? On Aug 18, 2011 10:28 AM, Thomas Nau thomas@uni-ulm.de wrote: Dear all. We finally got all the parts for our new fileserver following several recommendations we got over this list. We use Dell R715, 96GB RAM, dual 8-core Opterons 1 10GE Intel dual-port

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-14 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.comwrote: 2011/6/10 Tim Cook t...@cook.ms: While your memory may be sufficient, that cpu is sorely lacking. Is it even 64bit? There's a reason intel couldn't give those things away in the early 2000s and amd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Q: pool didn't expand. why? can I force it?

2011-06-12 Thread Tim Cook
. c8t3d0 ATA-ST2000DL003-9VT1-CC32-1.82TB So the question is, why didn't it expand? And can I fix it? Autoexpand is likely turned off. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/githb/index.html --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Hard link space savings

2011-06-12 Thread Tim Cook
you'd save with SIS and 15k rpm disks. Whether that's factual I suppose is for the reader to decide. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import hangs any zfs-related programs, eats all RAM and dies in swapping hell

2011-06-10 Thread Tim Cook
second - the watchdog never saw it coming :( While your memory may be sufficient, that cpu is sorely lacking. Is it even 64bit? There's a reason intel couldn't give those things away in the early 2000s and amd was eating their lunch. --Tim ___ zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Metadata (DDT) Cache Bias

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Cook
remaining. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] JBOD recommendation for ZFS usage

2011-05-30 Thread Tim Cook
. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
product)? Because they OWN the code, and the patents to protect the code. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, Oracle and Nexenta

2011-05-25 Thread Tim Cook
... the author of BIND. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2782.txt You should probably do a bit of research before throwing out claims like that to try to shoot someone down. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris vs FreeBSD question

2011-05-18 Thread Tim Cook
of upgrading to Solaris 11 Express, which means my zpool version is now too new to run anything else (AFAIK). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-09 Thread Tim Cook
align an encapsulated guest, especially when you could have different guest OS types on a LUN. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Cook
? Absolutely. Outside of those two 2000 series, the reason there are dedup limits isn't performance. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.comwrote: On 5/4/2011 4:44 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@oracle.comwrote: On 5/4/2011 4:14 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Brandon High

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Cook
dedup on primary storage, it works in the field. The rest is just static that doesn't matter. Let's focus on how to make ZFS better instead of trying to guess how others are making it work, especially when they've got a completely different implementation. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-04 Thread Tim Cook
outside of backup workloads. I'm not sure who told you/where you got the idea that VM images are not ripe for dedup, but it's wrong. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Going forward after Oracle - Let's get organized, let's get started.

2011-04-09 Thread Tim Cook
to build a community is by telling anyone who suggests perhaps they might be able to give feedback that they should be happy you're giving them any scraps at all (or in your case, not even that). --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-12 Thread Tim Cook
a bit more manageable, but it's still definitely a work in progress. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] dual protocal on one file system?

2011-03-12 Thread Tim Cook
2011/3/12 Fred Liu fred_...@issi.com Tim, Thanks. Is there a mapping mechanism like what DataOnTap does to map the permission/acl between NIS/LDAP and AD? Thanks. Fred *From:* Tim Cook [mailto:t...@cook.ms] *Sent:* 星期日, 三月 13, 2011 9:53 *To:* Fred Liu *Cc:* zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] cannot replace c10t0d0 with c10t0d0: device is too small

2011-03-04 Thread Tim Cook
the same size (although I do recall someone on this forum having this issue with Sun OEM disks as well). It's ridiculous they don't take into account the slight differences in drive sizes from vendor to vendor. Forcing you to single-source your disks is a bad habit to get into IMO. --Tim

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On 01/ 3/11 05:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.com wrote: There are more people outside of Oracle

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2011-01-04 Thread Tim Cook
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.com wrote: On 01/ 4/11 09:15 PM, Tim Cook wrote: On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:56 AM, Garrett D'Amore garr...@nexenta.comwrote: On 01/ 3/11 05:08 AM, Robert Milkowski wrote: On 12/26/10 05:40 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Sat, Dec

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Tim Cook
is all the armchair lawyers on this mailing list that think they've got prior art when THEY'VE NEVER EVEN SEEN THE CODE IN QUESTION! --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-25 Thread Tim Cook
settlements for the cost of legal defense to the victor. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] A few questions

2010-12-25 Thread Tim Cook
updates bi-weekly out of Sun. Nexenta spending hundreds of man-hours on a GUI and userland apps isn't work on ZFS. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disk failed, System not booting

2010-12-20 Thread Tim Cook
Just boot off a live cd, import the pool, and swap it that way. I'm guessing you havent changed your failmode to continue? On Dec 20, 2010 10:48 AM, Albert Frenz y...@zockbar.de wrote: hi there, i got freenas installed with a raidz1 pool of 3 disks. one of them now failed and it gives me

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: anyone aware how to obtain 1.8.0 for X2100M2?

2010-12-19 Thread Tim Cook
You have to have a support contract to download BIOS and firmware now. On Dec 19, 2010 12:29 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: I realize this is off-topic, but Oracle has completely screwed up the support site from Sun. I figured someone here would know how to obtain Sun Fire X2100 M2

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Cook
bandwidth putting them on separate ports. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mixing different disk sizes in a pool?

2010-12-18 Thread Tim Cook
out the SAS link. You'll be fine stacking them. But again, if you have the ports available, and already have the cables, it won't hurt anything to use them. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-16 Thread Tim Cook
compensation. *AT BEST* I could see them releasing a binary for OEL only that they won't be sharing with anyone else. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Guide to COMSTAR iSCSI?

2010-12-13 Thread Tim Cook
anyways (whether it be iSCSI or NFS) if your infrastructure can handle VLAN's. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-11 Thread Tim Cook
not spread unsubstantiated rumor in the first place. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-11 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Tim Cook t...@cook.ms wrote: I don't believe that there is a significant risk as the NetApp patents are invalid because of prior art. You are not a court of law, and that statement has

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ... open source moving forward?

2010-12-10 Thread Tim Cook
on their future plans for what was opensolaris. A leaked internal memo is NOT official company policy. Until I see source or an official statement, I'm not holding my breath. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] 3TB HDD in ZFS

2010-12-06 Thread Tim Cook
It's based on a jumper on most new drives. On Dec 6, 2010 8:41 PM, taemun tae...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 December 2010 13:25, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: There shouldn't be any problems using a 3TB drive with Solaris, so long as you're using a 64-bit kernel. Recent versions of zfs

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zfs ignoring spares?

2010-12-05 Thread Tim Cook
. The idea is that spares are only used in an emergency. You are degraded until your spares are no longer in use. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-29 Thread Tim Cook
6-8 months ago, but I haven't heard of anything similar in quite some time. As for Intel, they've had their share of issues as well. I assume you remember the data-loss inducing BIOS password bug? --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
to what forum posts? There were issues when Crucial and a few others released alpha firmware into production... Anandtech has put those drives through the ringer without issue. Several people on this list are running them as well. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-28 Thread Tim Cook
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:42 AM, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Nov 27, 2010, at 16:14, Tim Cook wrote: You don't need drivers for any SATA based SSD. It shows up as a standard hard drive and plugs into a standard SATA port. By the time the G3 Intel drive is out, the next gen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ext. UPS-backed SATA SSD ZIL?

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
got 500 drives, you're going to want a hell of a lot more ZIL space than the ddrdrive currently provides. I'm all for benchmarks, but try doing something a bit more realistic. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
using the system as a workstation, it'd definitely help, as applications tend to feel more responsive with an SSD. That's all I run in my laptops now. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
typically doesn't have any issues. I'd strongly suggest getting one of the sandforce controller based SSD's. They're the best on the market right now by far. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ext. UPS-backed SATA SSD ZIL?

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
it didn't make it into S11 Express? http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2010-July/012674.html --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] OCZ RevoDrive ZFS support

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
. Unless Intel does something revolutionary, they will still be behind the Sandforce drives. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Ext. UPS-backed SATA SSD ZIL?

2010-11-27 Thread Tim Cook
for 20-30 clients, each trying to compile a 15 million-line JDK at the same time. Lots and lots of small I/O. :-) Sounds like you need lots and lots of 15krpm drives instead of 7200rpm SATA ;) --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool import is this safe to use -f option in this case ?

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Jim Dunham james.dun...@oracle.com wrote: Tim, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jim Dunham james.dun...@oracle.comwrote: sridhar, I have done the following (which is required for my case) Created a zpool (smpool) on a device/LUN from an array (IBM 6K

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto in Oracle Solaris 11 Express

2010-11-17 Thread Tim Cook
for encryption than with it. And given the ever more stringent government regulations in the US, there are plenty of customers chomping at the bit for encryption at the storage array. --Tim ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http

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