Re: [zfs-discuss] Can I trust ZFS?

2008-07-31 Thread Chad Lewis
On Jul 31, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Bob Netherton wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 13:25 -0700, Ross wrote: Hey folks, I guess this is an odd question to be asking here, but I could do with some feedback from anybody who's actually using ZFS in anger. ZFS in anger ? That's an interesting way of

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: -t flag for 'zfs destroy'

2008-07-17 Thread Chad Lewis
http://www.opensolaris.org/bug/report.jspa You'll need an OpenSolaris.org account to file the RFE of course. On Jul 17, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Will Murnane wrote: I would like to request an additional flag for the command line zfs tools. Specifically, I'd like to have a -t flag for zfs destroy,

[zfs-discuss] previously mentioned J4000 released

2008-07-09 Thread Chad Lewis
Here's the announcement for those new Sun JBOD devices mentioned the other day. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-07/sunflash.20080709.1.xml ckl ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] nv-69 install panics dell precision 670

2007-08-14 Thread Chad Lewis
Apparently known bug, fixed in snv_70. http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6577473 On Aug 14, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Bill Moloney wrote: using hyperterm, I captured the panic message as: SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_69 32-bit Copyright 1983-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ARC and patents

2007-06-06 Thread Chad Lewis
With US patent laws the way they are, no one but a patent lawyer could safely give you an answer. If by some chance a patent lawyer is lurking and decided to comment, none of the rest of us could safely read such comments. No one working on ZFS could even safely look at the patent you've

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-05 Thread Chad Lewis
On Oct 5, 2006, at 6:48 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: On October 5, 2006 5:25:17 PM -0700 David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] b.net wrote: Well, unless you have a better VCS than CVS or SVN. I first met this as an obscure, buggy, expensive, short-lived SUN product, actually; I believe it was

Re: [zfs-discuss] Access to ZFS checksums would be nice and very useful feature

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Lewis
On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Henk Langeveld wrote: Bady, Brant RBCM:EX wrote: Part of the archiving process is to generate checksums (I happen to use MD5), and store them with other metadata about the digital object in order to verify data integrity and demonstrate the authenticity of the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Proposal: multiple copies of user data

2006-09-12 Thread Chad Lewis
On Sep 12, 2006, at 4:39 PM, Celso wrote: On 12/09/06, Celso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think it has already been said that in many peoples experience, when a disk fails, it completely fails. Especially on laptops. Of course ditto blocks wouldn't help you in this situation either! Exactly.

Re: [zfs-discuss] COW question

2006-07-12 Thread Chad Lewis
It uses extra space in the middle of the write, in order to hold the new data, but once the write is complete, the space occupied by the old version is now free for use. ckl On Jul 12, 2006, at 8:05 PM, Robert Chen wrote: I still could not understand why Copy on Write does not waste file