[osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread UNIX admin
Depends on your definition of soon when it comes to the crypto support. There is no funded and agreed on roadmap yet even though the project exists in opensolaris.org land. If there is one essential feature that ZFS currently lacks, I believe that feature would be encryption. This message

[osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread UNIX admin
Build 36 has a big wad of ZFS changes including many performance fixes, FMA support, error handling, etc. Many of us have been running ZFS in production for quite a while; the work in build 36 is a big step forward. Yeah but the question is, will these be backported into the first Solaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Darren J Moffat
UNIX admin wrote: Depends on your definition of soon when it comes to the crypto support. There is no funded and agreed on roadmap yet even though the project exists in opensolaris.org land. If there is one essential feature that ZFS currently lacks, I believe that feature would be

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Bart Smaalders
UNIX admin wrote: Build 36 has a big wad of ZFS changes including many performance fixes, FMA support, error handling, etc. Many of us have been running ZFS in production for quite a while; the work in build 36 is a big step forward. Yeah but the question is, will these be backported into the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Dennis Clarke wrote: On the one hand I can just install Solaris 10 Update 1 and create the fielsystem that I need with SVM and life goes on. Apply power and then walk away. On the other hand I can sit and wait a little while for the build 36 codedrop. then I accept the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Bill Bradford
I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( Bill On 3/8/06, Dennis Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the one hand I can just install Solaris 10 Update 1 and create the fielsystem that I need with SVM and life

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Stephen Lau
Bill Bradford wrote: I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( not true... 6374062 mountroot support needed for ZFS just putback on friday. -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Jonathan Adams
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:30:47PM -0800, Stephen Lau wrote: Bill Bradford wrote: I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( not true... 6374062 mountroot support needed for ZFS just putback on friday.

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread James Dickens
On 3/8/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Bradford wrote: I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( not true... 6374062 mountroot support needed for ZFS just putback on friday. -- Does this

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/8/06, Jonathan Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 01:30:47PM -0800, Stephen Lau wrote: Bill Bradford wrote: I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( not true... 6374062

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-08 Thread Bart Smaalders
James Dickens wrote: On 3/8/06, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Bradford wrote: I'd rather run straight UFS than have to ever deal with SVM/SDS again. Unfortunately, zfs-boot is a ways down the road. 8-( not true... 6374062 mountroot support needed for ZFS just putback on friday.