Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-06 Thread Dave
C. Bergström wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so much that a starving college student can accomplish from a dead-start in 1-1/2 months. The ZFS equivalent of eliminating world hunger is not among the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-06 Thread Tim Haley
Dave wrote: C. Bergström wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so much that a starving college student can accomplish from a dead-start in 1-1/2 months. The ZFS equivalent of eliminating world hunger is not

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-06 Thread Kyle Kakligian
Its been suggested before and I've heard its in the freebsd port... support for spindown? On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Dave dave-...@dubkat.com wrote: C. Bergström wrote: Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-06 Thread Bart Smaalders
I would really like to see a feature like 'zfs diff f...@snap1 f...@othersnap' that would report the paths of files that have either been added, deleted, or changed between snapshots. If this could be done at the ZFS level instead of the application level it would be very cool. -- AFAIK,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-05 Thread Darren J Moffat
Wes Felter wrote: slog and L2ARC on the same SSD You can do that already today. Create two slices using format(1M) and add the slices rather than the whole disk as the L2ARC or slog device. However IMO this is with current SSD techology probably the wrong thing to do. The slog wants a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-05 Thread Miles Nordin
gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm There are many different components that could contribute to gm such errors. yes of course. gm Since only the lower ZFS has data redundancy, only it can gm correct the error. um, no? An example already pointed out: kerberized

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-05 Thread Toby Thain
On 5-Mar-09, at 2:03 PM, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm There are many different components that could contribute to gm such errors. yes of course. gm Since only the lower ZFS has data redundancy, only it can gm correct the error. um,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-05 Thread Miles Nordin
tt == Toby Thain t...@telegraphics.com.au writes: c For writing, application-level checksums do NOT work at all, c because you would write corrupt data to the disk, and notice c only later when you read it back tt Right, it would have to be combined with an always read-back

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:35:40PM +0200, C. Bergström wrote: Here's more or less what I've collected... [..] 10) Did I miss something.. I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, unless nobody intends to attach a ZFS file server to a SAN with ZFS on application servers. --

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Tim
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:35:40PM +0200, C. Bergström wrote: Here's more or less what I've collected... [..] 10) Did I miss something.. I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, unless nobody

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Miles Nordin
nw == Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: nw IIRC Jeff Bonwick has said on this list that ubberblock nw rollback on import is now his higher priority. So working on nw (8) would be duplication of effort. well...if your recovery tool worked by using an older

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Miles Nordin
gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, Not that my opinion counts for much, but I wasn't deaf to it---I did respond. I thought it was kind of based on mistaken understanding. It included this strangeness of the upper ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so much that a starving college student can accomplish from a dead-start in 1-1/2 months. The ZFS equivalent of eliminating world hunger is not among the tasks which may be reasonably accomplished, yet

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread C. Bergström
Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so much that a starving college student can accomplish from a dead-start in 1-1/2 months. The ZFS equivalent of eliminating world hunger is not among the tasks which may be

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Toby Thain
On 4-Mar-09, at 1:28 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: I don't know if anyone has noticed that the topic is google summer of code. There is only so much that a starving college student can accomplish from a dead-start in 1-1/2 months. The ZFS equivalent of eliminating world hunger is not among

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Wes Felter
C. Bergström wrote: 10) Did I miss something.. T10 DIF support in zvols T10 UNMAP/thin provisioning support in zvols proportional scheduling for storage performance slog and L2ARC on the same SSD These are probably difficult but hopefully not world hunger level. Wes Felter -

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 02:16:53PM -0600, Wes Felter wrote: T10 UNMAP/thin provisioning support in zvols That's probably simple enough, and sufficiently valuable too. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Julius Roberts
2009/3/4 Tim t...@tcsac.net: I know plenty of home users would like the ability to add a single disk to a raid-z vdev in order to grow a disk at a time. +1 for that. -- Kind regards, Jules ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, March 4, 2009 16:53, Julius Roberts wrote: 2009/3/4 Tim t...@tcsac.net: I know plenty of home users would like the ability to add a single disk to a raid-z vdev in order to grow a disk at a time. +1 for that. In theory I'd like that a lot. I'm now committed to two two-disk mirrors

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, Not that my opinion counts for much, but I wasn't deaf to it---I did respond. I appreciate that. I thought it was

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Toby Thain
On 4-Mar-09, at 7:35 PM, Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, Not that my opinion counts for much, but I wasn't deaf to it---I did

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Dave
Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, Not that my opinion counts for much, but I wasn't deaf to it---I did respond. I appreciate that. I

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Gary Mills
On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:31:59PM -0700, Dave wrote: Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, It's a simply a consequence of ZFS's end-to-end

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-04 Thread Dave
Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 06:31:59PM -0700, Dave wrote: Gary Mills wrote: On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:20:42PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: gm == Gary Mills mi...@cc.umanitoba.ca writes: gm I suppose my RFE for two-level ZFS should be included, It's a simply a consequence

[zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread C. Bergström
For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a company that could use

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Elling
C. Bergström wrote: For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your vote, let me know if you can mentor or if you know a

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:35:40PM +0200, C. Bergström wrote: 7) vdev evacuation as an upgrade path (which may depend or take advantage of zfs resize/shrink code) IIRC Matt Ahrens has said on this list that vdev evacuation/pool shrinking is being worked. So (7) would be duplication of

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Blake
When I go here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/isns/bui I get an error. Where are you getting BUI from? On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: FWIW, I just took at look at the BUI in b108 and it seems to have garnered some love since the last time

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Maurice Volaski
10) Did I miss something.. Somehow, what I posted on the web forum didn't make it to the mailing list digest... How about implementing dedup? This has been listed as an RFE for almost a year, http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6677093 and discussed here,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Tim
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:35 PM, C. Bergström cbergst...@netsyncro.comwrote: For reasons which I don't care about Sun may not apply to be a gsoc organization this year. However, I'm not discouraged from trying to propose some exciting zfs related ideas. On/off list feel free to send your

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Richard Elling
Blake wrote: When I go here: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/isns/bui I get an error. Â Where are you getting BUI from? The BUI is in webconsole which is available on your local machine at port 6789 https://localhost:6798 If you want to access it remotely, you'll need to change the

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs related google summer of code ideas - your vote

2009-03-03 Thread Blake
That's what I thought you meant, and I got excited thinking that you were talking about OpenSolaris :) I'll see about getting the new packages and trying them out. On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:36 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@gmail.comwrote: Blake wrote: When I go here: