[zfs-discuss] Announcing ZFS code discussion forum

2006-05-03 Thread Eric Schrock
Folks - Given the response to my previous mail, we've created '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the corresponding Jive discussion forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=131 This forum should be used for detailed discussion of ZFS code, implementation details, codereview requests,

Re: [zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-03 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:22:53PM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote: I think that's the disconnect. WHY are they full-fledged files? Because that's what the specification calls for. Right, but that's my concern. To me this sounds like historically circular reasoning... 20xx) we need a new

[zfs-discuss] Re: PSARC 2006/288 zpool history

2006-05-03 Thread Ed Gould
On May 3, 2006, at 15:21, eric kustarz wrote: There's basically two writes that need to happen: one for time and one for the subcommand string. The kernel just needs to make sure if a write completes, the data is parseable (has a delimiter). Its then up to the userland parser (zpool history)

[zfs-discuss] Re: PSARC 2006/288 zpool history

2006-05-03 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:34:56PM -0700, Ed Gould wrote: I think this might be a case where a structured record (like the compact XML suggestion made earlier) would help. At least having distinguished start and end markers (whether they be one byte each, or XML constructs) for a record

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zpool history' proposal

2006-05-03 Thread Edward Pilatowicz
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 03:05:25PM -0700, Eric Schrock wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 02:47:57PM -0700, eric kustarz wrote: Jason Schroeder wrote: eric kustarz wrote: The following case is about to go to PSARC. Comments are welcome. eric To piggyback on earlier comments re:

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zpool history' proposal

2006-05-03 Thread Craig Cory
I, too, am late to this thread but I caught something that didn't seem right to me in this specific example. For the administration of the non-global zones, SunEducation (for whom I am an instructor) is stressing that the ng zones are Software Virtualizations (my quotes) and that the hardware and

Re: [zfs-discuss] 'zpool history' proposal

2006-05-03 Thread eric kustarz
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: ... So its really both - the subcommand successfully executes when its actually written to disk and txg group is synced. I found myself backtracking while reading that sentence due to the ambiguity in the first half -- did you mean the write of the literal text of

[zfs-discuss] Re: 'zpool history' proposal

2006-05-03 Thread Matthew A. Ahrens
# zpool history jen History for 'jen': 2006-04-27T10:38:36 zpool create jen mirror ... I have two suggestions which are just minor nits compared with the rest of this discussion: 1. Why do you print a T between the date and the time? I think a space would be more readable. 2. When

Re: [zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-03 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 17:20, Matthew Ahrens wrote: We appreciate your suggestion that we implement a higher-performance method for storing additional metadata associated with files. This will most likely not be possible within the extended attribute interface, and will require that we design

[zfs-discuss] been busy working on ZFS stuff

2006-05-03 Thread James Dickens
In case anyone is bored and wants some zfs reading here are some links for you. comparison of ZFS vs. Linux Raid and LVM http://unixconsult.org/zfs_vs_lvm.html zfs ready for home use http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-zfs-for-home.html moving zfs filesystems using zfs back/restore