Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 08/30/12 11:07, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one drive. If ZFS detects

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Justin Stringfellow
has only one drive. If ZFS detects something bad it might kernel panic and lose the whole system right? What do you mean by lose the whole system? A panic is not a bad thing, and also does not imply that the machine will not reboot successfully. It certainly doesn't guarantee your OS will

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Anonymous Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/30/2012 12:07 PM, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one drive. If ZFS

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2012-08-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one drive. If ZFS detects something bad it might kernel

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2012-08-30 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/30/2012 04:08 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one drive. If

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2012-08-30 Thread Justin Stringfellow
would be very annoying if ZFS barfed on a technicality and I had to reinstall the whole OS because of a kernel panic and an unbootable system. Is this a known scenario with ZFS then? I can't recall hearing of this happening. I've seen plenty of UFS filesystems dieing with panic: freeing

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous
On 08/30/2012 12:07 PM, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one drive. If

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
Hi Darren, On 08/30/12 11:07, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use ZFS since it has only one

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Sašo Kiselkov
On 08/30/2012 04:22 PM, Anonymous wrote: On 08/30/2012 12:07 PM, Anonymous wrote: Hi. I have a spare off the shelf consumer PC and was thinking about loading Solaris on it for a development box since I use Studio @work and like it better than gcc. I was thinking maybe it isn't so smart to use

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2012-08-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Nomen Nescio nob...@dizum.com wrote: In this specific use case I would rather have a system that's still bootable and runs as best it can That's what would happen if the corruption happens on part of the disk (e.g. bad sector). than an unbootable system that

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
would be very annoying if ZFS barfed on a technicality and I had to reinstall the whole OS because of a kernel panic and an unbootable system. It shouldn't do that. I agree but it seems like other people had it happen. Plus, if you look around a bit, you'll find some tutorials to back

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous Remailer (austria)
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Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Truhn, Chad
Now that is interesting. But how do you do a receive before you reinstall? Live cd?? Just boot off of the CD (or jumpstart server) to single user mode. Format your new disk, create a zpool, zfs recv, installboot (or installgrub), reboot and done.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Anonymous
I asked what I thought was a simple question but most of the answers don't have too much to do with the question. Now it seems to be an argument of your filesystem is better than any other filesystem. I don't think it is because I have seen the horror stories lurking on this list. I had no

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Stefan Ring
I asked what I thought was a simple question but most of the answers don't have too much to do with the question. Hehe, welcome to mailing lists ;). What I'd really like is an option (maybe it exists) in ZFS to say when a block fails a checksum tell me which file it affects It does exactly

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Fajar A. Nugraha
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Nomen Nescio nob...@dizum.com wrote: Plus, if you look around a bit, you'll find some tutorials to back up the entire OS using zfs send-receive. So even if for some reason the OS becomes unbootable (e.g. blocks on some critical file is corrupted, which would

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS ok for single disk dev box?

2012-08-30 Thread Nomen Nescio
Thanks, sounds awesome! Pretty much takes away my concern of using ZFS! Stu Now that is interesting. But how do you do a receive before you reinstall? Live cd?? Just boot off of the CD (or jumpstart server) to single user mode. Format your new disk, create a zpool, zfs recv,