HAMMER question

2010-11-07 Thread Mag Gam
Hello, I was taking a peek at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneFS_distributed_file_system and curious if HAMMER will ever have features like this. TIA

Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread elekktretterr
Hi all, Im thinking about deploying DragonFly as a storage server. Company I work for needs fine snapshot/versioning granularity and I think Hammer would be good for that. The situation is like this: they want daily snapshots, but they want to keep every modification of files/databases since the

Re: Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi all, : :Im thinking about deploying DragonFly as a storage server. Company I work :for needs fine snapshot/versioning granularity and I think Hammer would be :good for that. The situation is like this: they want daily snapshots, but :they want to keep every modification of files/databases

Re: Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread elekktretterr
Thanks Matt, So if I set the prune-min to 3 days, and use even the default PFS config (1 day snapshot, 1 day prune, 1 day reblock) it will just work? Excellent! Petr

Re: Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:In regards to existing hammer instalations that run the initial HAMMER :release, do I have to upgrade to HAMMER WIP? : :Petr It isn't necessary for the pruning feature. If it is still calling it WIP then you have either an old kernel or an old hammer binary. Do not upgrade to the

Re: Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread Petr Janda
Sorry for the confusion, IM running a recent kernel + userland, but the file system was created about 9 months ago, this is what I have: min=1 wip=3 max=2 current=1 description=2.0 - First HAMMER release available versions: 1 NORM2.0 - First HAMMER release 2 NORM2.3 - New

Re: Hammer question about pruning

2009-08-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Sorry for the confusion, IM running a recent kernel + userland, but the file :system was created about 9 months ago, this is what I have: : :min=1 wip=3 max=2 current=1 description=2.0 - First HAMMER release :available versions: :1 NORM2.0 - First HAMMER release :2 NORM2.3

Hammer question

2009-02-24 Thread Mag Gam
I am very intrigued with the HAMMER filesystem. I am a heavy Linux user and at work we use Linux exclusively. I was curious how hammer manages dynamic inodes. On ext3 we pre create inodes which is a fixed amount. How is hammer doing this? Sorry if this is a newbie question. I asked the same

Re: Hammer question

2009-02-24 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I am very intrigued with the HAMMER filesystem. I am a heavy Linux :user and at work we use Linux exclusively. I was curious how hammer :manages dynamic inodes. On ext3 we pre create inodes which is a fixed :amount. How is hammer doing this? : :Sorry if this is a newbie question. I asked the

Re: Hammer question

2009-02-24 Thread Mag Gam
Thankyou. I will start dust of my CS books to start looking into Btrees. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Matthew Dillon dil...@apollo.backplane.com wrote: :I am very intrigued with the HAMMER filesystem. I am a heavy Linux :user and at work we use Linux exclusively. I was curious how hammer