Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-07-05 Thread Pete Bentley
I can't see *any* part of 6560174 on bugs.opensolaris.org, which is somewhat annoying as it was me that filed it. Fow what it's worth though, ZFS on firewire seems to function reasonably well in spite of the transport reject errors I mention in that bug report. Pete. Jeff Thompson wrote:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-07-05 Thread Jeff Thompson
Pete Bentley wrote: I can't see *any* part of 6560174 on bugs.opensolaris.org, which is somewhat annoying as it was me that filed it. Does anybody else know why bug reports are disappearing on bugs.opensolaris.org? Fow what it's worth though, ZFS on firewire seems to function reasonably

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-07-05 Thread Pete Bentley
On 5 Jul 2007, at 20:33, Jeff Thompson wrote: Pete Bentley wrote: I can't see *any* part of 6560174 on bugs.opensolaris.org, which is somewhat annoying as it was me that filed it. Does anybody else know why bug reports are disappearing on bugs.opensolaris.org? According to a helpful

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread mike
I still haven't got any warm and fuzzy responses yet solidifying ZFS in combination with Firewire or USB enclosures. I am looking for 4-10 drive enclosures for quiet SOHO desktop-ish use. I am trying to confirm that OpenSolaris+ZFS would be stable with this, if exported out as JBOD and allow ZFS

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread Bev Crair
Mike, Take a look at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8100808442979626078q=CSI%3Amunich Granted, this was for demo purposes, but the team in Munich is clearly leveraging USB sticks for their purposes. HTH, Bev. mike wrote: I still haven't got any warm and fuzzy responses yet

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread mike
Would you consider a USB stick to be the same usability model as a handful of 750GB drives (backing up large files for home backup needs - DVD backups, home pictures, etc) - that wouldn't be hot plugged often if at all (only on failure, or accidental power loss/etc) On 3/20/07, Bev Crair

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread Chris Csanady
It looks like the following bug is still open: 6424510 usb ignores DKIOCFLUSHWRITECACHE Until it is fixed, I wouldn't even consider using ZFS on USB storage. Even so, not all bridge boards (Firewire included) implement this command. Unless you can verify that it functions correctly, it is

Re: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread Phi Tran
Begin forwarded message: From: Chris Csanady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: March 20, 2007 11:58:24 AM PDT To: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ZFS Discussions zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures It looks like the following bug is still open: 6424510

Re: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread mike
okay so since this is fixed, Chris, would you consider using USB/FW now? I am desperate to replace a server that is failing and I want to replace it with a proper quiet ZFS-based solution, I hate being held captive by NTFS issues (it may have corrupted my data now a second time) ZFS's

Re: Fwd: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread Frank Cusack
On March 20, 2007 1:41:53 PM -0700 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am desperate to replace a server that is failing and I want to replace it with a proper quiet ZFS-based solution Slightly off your point, but I can't imagine 4 drives being anything near quiet. -frank

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread Sanjeev Bagewadi
Mike, We have used 4 disks (2X80GB disks and 2X250GB disks) on USB and things worked well. Hot plugging the disks was not all that smooth for us. Other than that we had no issues using the disks. We used this setup for demos at the FOSS 2007 conference at Bangalore and that went through

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and Firewire/USB enclosures

2007-03-20 Thread mike
Would the system be able to halt if something was unplugged/some massive failure happened? That way if something got tripped, I could fix it before any corruption or issue occured. That would be my safety net, I suppose. On 3/20/07, Sanjeev Bagewadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, We have