Fwd: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread BVK
This missed the group! -- Forwarded message -- From: BVK [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 8, 2007 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS To: Rick Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 6/8/07, Rick Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hoping for L4, myself. Though

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread BVK
On 6/8/07, Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I think its quite possible. I believe, very soon they will ditch their Mach based (?) BSD and switch to solaris. File based CDDL license seems like a right choice to a company

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: zfs send/receive incremental

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Gerhard
Starfox wrote: None of the scripts that I looked at seemed to offered any sort of error recovery. I think I'll be able to use this as a starting point (and maybe the man pages can be updated to include that you can use any common snapshot to send -i - that fact is not obvious to those

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread Dick Davies
On 08/06/07, BVK [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/8/07, Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I think its quite possible. I believe, very soon they will ditch their Mach based (?) BSD and switch to solaris. I think that's

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Toby Thain wrote: On 8-Jun-07, at 3:13 AM, BVK wrote: On 6/8/07, Toby Thain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I think its quite possible. I believe, very soon they will ditch their Mach based (?) BSD and switch

Re: [zfs-discuss] IRC: thought: irc.freenode.net #zfs for platform-agnostic or multi-platform discussion

2007-06-08 Thread Torrey McMahon
Graham Perrin wrote: We have irc://irc.freenode.net/solaris and irc://irc.freenode.net/opensolaris and the other channels listed at http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/entry/opensolaris_on_irc AND growing discussion of ZFS in Mac- 'FUSE- and Linux-oriented channels BUT unless I'm missing something,

Re: [zfs-discuss] Mac OS X Leopard to use ZFS

2007-06-08 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, BVK wrote: File based CDDL license seems like a right choice to a company like Apple. My only worry is, Apple never works in open, so their improvements may never get back into the community. But that can't happen (to files that Apple modifies at least): the CDDL dictates

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: SMART

2007-06-08 Thread Eric Schrock
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:51:17AM -0700, J?rgen Keil wrote: You are right... I shouldn't post in the middle of the night... nForce chipsets don't support AHCI. Btw. does anybody have a status update for bug 6296435, native sata driver needed for nVIDIA mcp04 and mcp55 controllers

Re: [zfs-discuss] Holding disks for home servers

2007-06-08 Thread dave johnson
I only see 15 disks in your CM stacker. I designed and built a system for work with the CMStacker and relocated the power and IO panel from the top slot to the side cover (where the spot for a small fan is) and it works great. A single Seasonic 600AS powers the entire system nicely with PF

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: ZFS consistency guarantee

2007-06-08 Thread Peter Schuller
1. ZFS atomic operation that commits data. 2. Writes come into the app. 3. The db put in hotbackup mode. 4. Snapshot taken on storage. 5. ZFS atomic operation that commits data. So if i do a snap restore, ZFS might revert to point1, but from the db perspective, it is inconsistent and we

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: ZFS consistency guarantee

2007-06-08 Thread Darren Dunham
1. ZFS atomic operation that commits data. 2. Writes come into the app. 3. The db put in hotbackup mode. 4. Snapshot taken on storage. 5. ZFS atomic operation that commits data. So if i do a snap restore, ZFS might revert to point1, but from the db= perspective, it is

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: ZFS consistency guarantee

2007-06-08 Thread ganesh
Thanks Darren, so a sync should do the job for me in that case. How about locking the FS so that i dont miss any new writes further on?. Anything similar to lockfs?. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS with expanding LUNs

2007-06-08 Thread ganesh
Did we ever get a reply to this?, As somebody mentioned, the generic answer was use ZFS, but i never got to know how. I havent tried it myself but i was curious to know since i will be implementing ZFS shortly. This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Re: Resizing lun.

2007-06-08 Thread ganesh
Hi Eric, Is zfs dynamic lun expansion possible now?. thanks! Ganes This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: ZFS consistency guarantee

2007-06-08 Thread Darren Dunham
Thanks Darren, so a sync should do the job for me in that case. How about locking the FS so that i dont miss any new writes further on?. I'm not sure I understand what you might miss here. Normally you'd ask your application to make itself consistent, take a snapshot, then when the snapshot