Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referred. can the list confirm that this issue isn't a problem with solaris10/zfs?? Linux also supports asynchronous

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referred. can the list confirm that this issue isn't

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 8 Nov 2006, at 16:16, Robert Milkowski wrote: Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being

Re: Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Paul van der Zwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure UFS and ZFS can be faster, but having fast, but possibly dangerous, defaults gives you nice benchmark figures ;-) In real life I prefer the safe, but a bit slower, defaults, as should anybody who values his data. There is another point

Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Neil Perrin
Robert Milkowski wrote On 11/08/06 08:16,: Hello Paul, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 3:23:35 PM, you wrote: PvdZ On 7 Nov 2006, at 21:02, Michael Schuster wrote: listman wrote: hi, i found a comment comparing linux and solaris but wasn't sure which version of solaris was being referred.

Re: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Matthew Ahrens
Robert Milkowski wrote: PvdZ This could be related to Linux trading reliability for speed by doing PvdZ async metadata updates. PvdZ If your system crashes before your metadata is flushed to disk your PvdZ filesystem might be hosed and a restore PvdZ from backups may be needed. you can

Re[2]: [zfs-discuss] linux versus sol10

2006-11-08 Thread Robert Milkowski
Hello Matthew, Wednesday, November 8, 2006, 5:31:28 PM, you wrote: MA Robert Milkowski wrote: PvdZ This could be related to Linux trading reliability for speed by doing PvdZ async metadata updates. PvdZ If your system crashes before your metadata is flushed to disk your PvdZ filesystem

[zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-08 Thread Jason King
Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches. What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the clone, then boot off the clone (by doing a

[zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Wes Williams
I'm in the process of building a Solaris NFS server with ZFS and was wondering if any gurus here have any comments as to choosing the upcoming Solairs 10 11/06 [presumably] or OpenSolaris bXX/Solairs Express for this use. Even with my use of OpenSolaris I maintain a service contract to show my

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Al Hopper
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Wes Williams wrote: [ reformatted ... ] I'm in the process of building a Solaris NFS server with ZFS and was wondering if any gurus here have any comments as to choosing the upcoming Solairs 10 11/06 [presumably] or OpenSolaris bXX/Solairs Express for this use. Even

[zfs-discuss] Re: OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS

2006-11-08 Thread Wes Williams
[ Hi Wes from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] And the smart-ask answer is: By Definition: the OpenSolaris/Solaris Express feature that is *your* must-have feature, probably won't be in Update 3! :) Exactly, that's why I used quotes as I'm sure I'd be happy with S10u3, assuming ignorance is bliss.

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 11/8/06, Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my case, the ability to clone a zone from a zfs snapshot did'nt make it! :( Yeah, but if you read the man page in the U3 beta, you would see that the man page changes made it over. Personally, I would have preferred the code instead of the man

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-08 Thread Richard Elling - PAE
Mike Gerdts wrote: On 11/7/06, Richard Elling - PAE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: d10 mirror of c0t2d0s0 and c0t3d0s0swap (2+2GB, to match above) Also a waste, use a swap file. Add a dumpdev if you care about kernel dumps, no need to mirror a dumpdev. How do you figure that allocating

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on patching + zfs root

2006-11-08 Thread Lori Alt
Torrey McMahon wrote: Jason King wrote: Anxiously anticipating the ability to boot off zfs, I know there's been some talk about leveraging some of the snapshotting/cloning features in conjunction with upgrades and patches. What I am really hoping for is the ability to clone /, patch the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best Practices recommendation on x4200

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 10:21, Richard Elling - PAE wrote: One way to populate an ABE is to mirror slices. However, you cannot mirror between a device that starts at cylinder 0 and one that does not. Where is this restriction documented? It doesn't make sense to me. Maybe you have a

Re: [zfs-discuss] OpenSolaris vs. Solaris 10 11/06 (S10u3) for NFS ZFS Server

2006-11-08 Thread Nathan Kroenert
For me, it came down to - Do I want to patch, or upgrade? My gateway to the internet is a solaris 10 box, patched whenever required. I like that as soon as a security patch is available, I can apply it and reboot. Simple. My laptop runs nevada. I upgrade from network / dvd when I see a new

[zfs-discuss] Is there inotify for ZFS?

2006-11-08 Thread LingBo Tang
Hi all, As inotify for Linux, is there same mechanism in Solaris for ZFS? I think this functionality is helpful for desktop search engine. I know one engineer of Sun is working on file event monitor, which will provide some information of file events, but is not for search purpose because it