Xen/VM?

2012-05-10 Thread Alexey Zilber
Hi Everyone, Not sure if this is the right list to ask this in. But is there any work on a Xen host for Dragonfly? I would love to try it out on EC2, and HAMMER on EBS should be pretty sweet. Thanks! -Alexey

Re: Xen/VM?

2012-05-10 Thread Martin Kelly
Hey Alexey, Just to clarify with you: Xen host; is the host operating system that interacts directly with the hardware and the guest OS. Xen guest; is the guest operating system that sits on top (in a sense) of the host OS and interacts with host only in most cases. But from my

Re: Xen/VM?

2012-05-10 Thread Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 08:04:33PM +0800, Alexey Zilber wrote: Hi Everyone, Not sure if this is the right list to ask this in. But is there any work on a Xen host for Dragonfly? I would love to try it out on EC2, and HAMMER on EBS should be pretty sweet. Hi. Yes, this is the correct

Re: Xen/VM?

2012-05-10 Thread Martin Kelly
Honestly Alexey, i think if you want to give the HAMMER filesystem a go, you would be better off to test it out on physical hardware than on a xen hypervisor or through a virtual machine. Unless the operating system is built purely for VM use like Solaris, you won't ever really see the OS

How to change an existing Hammer FS label

2012-05-10 Thread Stéphane Russell
Hi, I'm trying to change the label of an existing Hammer FS. I found it's possible to change the label of a PFS, but is there a way to change the label of the true file system once the FS is created with newfs_hammer? Thanks SR