Re: HAMMER2 PFSes

2020-04-23 Thread Chuck Musser
Right, I wasn't trying to use the clustering feature. "cluster" appears in the docs and a lot of the commands take or show a cluster ID, so I wondered what it meant it the system as it stands now. I might have been trying to read it too literally. Also, the formatting of my earlier questions got

Re: HAMMER2 PFSes

2020-04-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
For now don't try to cluster anything. That work is still in-progress. You can create multiple independent masters on the same device, and you can snapshot them, as well as be able to write to the snapshots. That all works. The snapshots basically work the same as masters. -Matt

HAMMER2 PFSes

2020-04-22 Thread Chuck Musser
I'm trying to understand some of the concepts behind HAMMER2, so I played with a freshly installed 5.8 system and have a few questions. 1. As I understand it, PFSes allow a HAMMER2 filesystem to be split into isolated parts which share the space available of the underlying filesystem.