Re: [zfs-discuss] Migration of a Thumper to bigger HDDs

2012-05-16 Thread bofh
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Your idea actually evolved for me into another (#7?), which is simple and apparent enough to be ingenious ;) DO use the partitions, but split the 2.73Tb drives into a roughly 2.5Tb partition followed by a 250Gb partition of

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migration of a Thumper to bigger HDDs

2012-05-16 Thread bofh
, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote: Hello fellow BOFH,  I also went by that title in a previous life ;) :) -- http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity. -- Sandhurst officer

Re: [zfs-discuss] Advanced Format HDD's - are we there yet? (or - how to buy a drive that won't be teh sux0rs on zfs)

2012-05-29 Thread bofh
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:54 AM, John Martin john.m.mar...@oracle.com wrote:  $ zdb -C | grep ashift              ashift: 12              ashift: 12              ashift: 12 That's interesting. I just created a raidz3 pool out of 7x3TB drives. My drives were ST3000DM001-9YN1 Hitachi

Re: [zfs-discuss] Hard Drive Choice Question

2012-06-11 Thread bofh
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote:    What do people like today for 7x24 operation SATA drives? I am willing to consider 2TB, but don't really need the extra capacity (but if that is all the market offers, I don't have to use the other half :-) I found a

Re: [zfs-discuss] simple question about snapshots

2012-07-12 Thread bofh
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Bob Friesenhahn bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, bofh wrote: When I do a snapshot, that file is part of the snapshot. But are changes within the file kept as well? Only the difference (at block level) between the snapshots is kept