Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-12 Thread can you guess?
In the previous and current responses, you seem quite determined of others misconceptions. I'm afraid that your sentence above cannot be parsed grammatically. If you meant that I *have* determined that some people here are suffering from various misconceptions, that's correct. Given

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-12 Thread Peter Schuller
You have to detect the problem first. ZFS is in a much better position to detect the problem due to block checksums. Bulls***, to quote another poster here who has since been strangely quiet. The vast majority of what ZFS can detect (save for *extremely* rare undetectable bit-rot and

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-12 Thread can you guess?
Well, I guess we're going to remain stuck in this sub-topic for a bit longer: The vast majority of what ZFS can detect (save for *extremely* rare undetectable bit-rot and for real hardware (path-related) errors that studies like CERN's have found to be very rare - and you have yet to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread can you guess?
Chill. It's a filesystem. If you don't like it, don't use it. Hey, I'm cool - it's mid-November, after all. And it's not about liking or not liking ZFS: it's about actual merits vs. imagined ones, and about legitimate praise vs. illegitimate hype. Some of us have a professional interest

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread can you guess?
Just to note here as well as earlier that some of the confusion about what you had and had not said was related to my not having seen the post where you talked about RAW and compressed RAW errors until this morning. Since your other mysteriously 'disappeared' post also appeared recently, I

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread Tim Cook
No, you aren't cool, and no it isn't about zfs or your interest in it. It was clear from the get-go that netapp was paying you to troll any discussion on it, and to that end you've succeeded. Unfortunately you've done nothing but make yourself look like a pompous arrogant ass in every forum

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread can you guess?
No, you aren't cool, and no it isn't about zfs or your interest in it. It was clear from the get-go that netapp was paying you to troll any discussion on it, It's (quite literally) amazing how the most incompetent individuals turn out to be those who are the most certain of their

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-11 Thread Tim Spriggs
In the previous and current responses, you seem quite determined of others misconceptions. Given that fact and the first paragraph of your response below, I think you can figure out why nobody on this list will reply to you again. can you guess? wrote: No, you aren't cool, and no it isn't

[zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread can you guess?
This is a bit weird: I just wrote the following response to a dd-b post that now seems to have disappeared from the thread. Just in case that's a temporary aberration, I'll submit it anyway as a new post. can you guess? wrote: Ah - thanks to both of you. My own knowledge of video format

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread can you guess?
can you guess? wrote: This is a bit weird: I just wrote the following response to a dd-b post that now seems to have disappeared from the thread. Just in case that's a temporary aberration, I'll submit it anyway as a new post. Strange things certainly happen here now and then.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
can you guess? wrote: can you guess? wrote: This is a bit weird: I just wrote the following response to a dd-b post that now seems to have disappeared from the thread. Just in case that's a temporary aberration, I'll submit it anyway as a new post. Strange

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread can you guess?
can you guess? wrote: ... Most of the balance of your post isn't addressed in any detail because it carefully avoids the fundamental issues that I raised: Not true; and by selective quoting you have removed my specific responses to most of these issues. While I'm naturally

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread can you guess?
can you guess? wrote: ... Most of the balance of your post isn't addressed in any detail because it carefully avoids the fundamental issues that I raised: Not true; and by selective quoting you have removed my specific responses to most of these issues. While I'm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Response to phantom dd-b post

2007-11-10 Thread Tim Spriggs
Chill. It's a filesystem. If you don't like it, don't use it. Sincere Regards, -Tim can you guess? wrote: can you guess? wrote: ... Most of the balance of your post isn't addressed in any detail because it carefully avoids the fundamental issues that I raised: