Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-19 Thread Michael Neumann
Matthew Dillon wrote: :But - at the end of the day - how much [extra?] on-disk space will be :needed to insure mount 'as-of' is 'good enough' for some realisitic span :(a week?, a month?)? 'Forever' may be too much to ask. The amount of disk needed is precisely the same as the amount of

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
:But - at the end of the day - how much [extra?] on-disk space will be :needed to insure mount 'as-of' is 'good enough' for some realisitic span :(a week?, a month?)? 'Forever' may be too much to ask. The amount of disk needed is precisely the same as the amount of historical data

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: :But - at the end of the day - how much [extra?] on-disk space will be :needed to insure mount 'as-of' is 'good enough' for some realisitic span :(a week?, a month?)? 'Forever' may be too much to ask. The amount of disk needed is precisely the same as the amount of

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Neumann
Bill Hacker wrote: Michael Neumann wrote: Bill Hacker wrote: I'm guessing it will be a while yet before HAMMER is ready for this, but it seems to be moving fast - and cleanly - so... Sorry to hijack this thread. Just wanna mention a little write down of mine about HammerFS features (and

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
: So it comes down to how much space you are willing to eat up to store : the history, and what kind of granularity you will want for the history. : :OK - so it WILL be a 'tunable', then. :... :HAMMER cannot protect against all forms of human error - BUT - if it :inherently rebuilds more

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-17 Thread Michael Neumann
Bill Hacker wrote: I'm guessing it will be a while yet before HAMMER is ready for this, but it seems to be moving fast - and cleanly - so... Sorry to hijack this thread. Just wanna mention a little write down of mine about HammerFS features (and sometimes comparing it with ZFS):

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Sorry to hijack this thread. Just wanna mention a little write down of :mine about HammerFS features (and sometimes comparing it with ZFS): : :http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/01/17/zfs-vs-hammerfs : :I can't await to try it out in real! : :Regards, : : Michael Nice. There are a

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Hacker
Michael Neumann wrote: Bill Hacker wrote: I'm guessing it will be a while yet before HAMMER is ready for this, but it seems to be moving fast - and cleanly - so... Sorry to hijack this thread. Just wanna mention a little write down of mine about HammerFS features (and sometimes comparing it

Re: Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-17 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Sorry to hijack this thread. Not to worry! It was *intended* to be 'hijacked'. Welcome! Just wanna mention a little write down of :mine about HammerFS features (and sometimes comparing it with ZFS): : :http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/01/17/zfs-vs-hammerfs :

Futures - HAMMER comparison testing?

2008-01-14 Thread Bill Hacker
I'm guessing it will be a while yet before HAMMER is ready for this, but it seems to be moving fast - and cleanly - so... .. to the extent networked clustering AND inherent recoverablility are intended to be major strengths - to what comparable fs should we expect to look if we were to