Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + fsck

2009-11-04 Thread Kevin Walker
Hi all, Just subscribed to the list after a debate on our helpdesk lead me to the posting about ZFS corruption and the need for a fsck repair tool of some kind... Has there been any update on this? Kind regards,   Kevin Walker Coreix Limited   DDI: (+44) 0207 183 1725 ext 90 Mobile: (+44

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-14 Thread Kevin Walker
I once watched a video interview with Larry from Oracle, this ass rambled on about how he hates cloud computing and that everyone was getting into cloud computing and in his opinion no one understood cloud computing, apart from him... :-| From that day on I felt enlightened about Oracle and how

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS development moving behind closed doors

2010-08-15 Thread Kevin Walker
in FreeBSD? On 15 August 2010 15:13, David Magda dma...@ee.ryerson.ca wrote: On Aug 14, 2010, at 19:39, Kevin Walker wrote: I once watched a video interview with Larry from Oracle, this ass rambled on about how he hates cloud computing and that everyone was getting into cloud computing

Re: [zfs-discuss] Swapping disks in pool to facilitate pool growth

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Walker
Hi Guys, We are a running a Solaris 10 production server being used for backup services within our DC. We have 8 500GB drives in a zpool and we wish to swap them out 1 by 1 for 1TB drives. I would like to know if it is viable to add larger disks to zfs pool to grow the pool size and then remove

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS/short stroking vs. SSDs for ZIL

2010-12-29 Thread Kevin Walker
You do seem to misunderstand ZIL. ZIL is quite simply write cache and using a short stroked rotating drive is never going to provide a performance increase that is worth talking about and more importantly ZIL was designed to be used with a RAM/Solid State Disk. We use sata2 *HyperDrive5* RAM