Re: [zfs-discuss] Wanted: sanity check for a clustered ZFS idea

2011-10-17 Thread Richard Elling
On Oct 15, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Toby Thain wrote: On 15/10/11 2:43 PM, Richard Elling wrote: On Oct 15, 2011, at 6:14 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Tim Cook In my example - probably not a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Scrub error and object numbers

2011-10-17 Thread Shain Miley
Here is the out put from: zdb -vvv smbpool/glusterfs 0x621b67 Dataset smbpool/glusterfs [ZPL], ID 270, cr_txg 1034346, 20.1T, 4139680 objects, rootbp DVA[0]=5:5e21000:600 DVA[1]=0:5621000:600 [L0 DMU objset] fletcher4 lzjb LE contiguous unique double size=400L/200P

[zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
This subject may have been ridden to death... I missed it if so. Not wanting to start a flame fest or whatever but As a common slob who isn't very skilled, I like to see some commentary from some of the pros here as to any comparison of zfs against btrfs. I realize btrfs is a lot less

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: This subject may have been ridden to death... I missed it if so. Not wanting to start a flame fest or whatever but As a common slob who isn't very skilled, I like to see some commentary from some of the pros here as

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Paul Kraus
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: My main reasons for using zfs are pretty basic compared to some here What are they ? (the reasons for using ZFS) and I wondered how btrfs stacks up on the basic qualities. I use ZFS @ work because it is the only FS we

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Michael DeMan
Or, if you absolutely must run linux for the operating system, see: http://zfsonlinux.org/ On Oct 17, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Freddie Cash wrote: If you absolutely must run Linux on your storage server, for whatever reason, then you probably won't be running ZFS. For the next year or two, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] about btrfs and zfs

2011-10-17 Thread Harry Putnam
Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com writes: If you only want RAID0 or RAID1, then btrfs is okay. There's no support for RAID5+ as yet, and it's been in development for a couple of years now. [...] snipped excellent information Thanks much, I've very appreciative of the good information. Much