Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-21 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Dave Ringkorno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I'll start: - The commands are easy to remember -- all two of them.  Which is easier, SVM or ZFS, to mirror your disks?  I've been using SVM for years and still have to break out the manual to use metadb, metainit,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-21 Thread Simon Breden
OK, my turn: - combining file system + volume manager + RAID + pool + scrub + resilvering + snapshots + rollback + end-to-end integrity + 256-but block checksums + on-the-fly healing of blocks with checksum errors on read - one liners that are mostly remembered, and simple to guess if forgotten

[zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-19 Thread Dave Ringkor
I'll start: - The commands are easy to remember -- all two of them. Which is easier, SVM or ZFS, to mirror your disks? I've been using SVM for years and still have to break out the manual to use metadb, metainit, metastat, metattach, metadetach, etc. I hardly ever have to break out the ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-19 Thread Ian Collins
Dave Ringkor wrote: - Boasting to the unconverted. We still have a lot of VxVM and SVM on Solaris, and LVM on AIX, in the office. The other admins are always having issues with storage migrations, full filesystems, Live Upgrade, corrupted root filesystems, etc. I love being able to offer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Things I Like About ZFS

2009-06-19 Thread Blake
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Dave Ringkorno-re...@opensolaris.org wrote: I'll start: - The commands are easy to remember -- all two of them.  Which is easier, SVM or ZFS, to mirror your disks?  I've been using SVM for years and still have to break out the manual to use metadb,