sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
he sysinstall to the new user. GJOURNAL and ZFS present themselves as the most sensible options in this case. Sincerely, - Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscri

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
ysinstall is to help beginners, but do beginners need so complex setups? A user who wants his data to be well protected and his system to have high resistance to becoming unbootable in the case of a power loss is a user with completely reasonable expectations, not a user with a "compl

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
Great! I am downloading http://snapshots.pfsense.org/FreeBSD_8_0/FreeBSD-20090608-1522-8.0-CURRENT.iso.gz as we speak and will give it a whirl within the next few days. Any plans to do similar snapshot builds of -STABLE? - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Scott Ullrich wrote: > On

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
anyone can walk into a computer store and purchase a consumer 1,5tb or 2tb drive. Have you tried running fsck on a 2tb filesystem? It's not fun. And this will only get worse with time as drive sizes continue to grow. - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Nick Barkas wrote: > Ca

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-09 Thread Dan Naumov
What arch are these snapshots, are they amd64 or i386? Speaking of -STABLE snapshots, since they are a more slowly moving target than -CURRENT, 1 snapshot every week or so would definately be enough :) - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Scott Ullrich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 a

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Naumov
r exposure, resulting in more testing, resulting in these new features getting their quirks ironed out faster and resulting in these new features getting the "truly tested and proven by time" stamp of approval faster. I think we can all agree this would be a good thing? Sincerely - Dan Naum

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Naumov
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello list > > Let me preface this by saying that I do not have coding > knowledge/experience, but I am willing to donate my time to help test > things if somebody is already working on this. Hopefully, this will > prevent mos

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-12 Thread Dan Naumov
=== If you would like me to continue, please let me know. Sincerely, - Dan Naumov On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Scott Ullrich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > [snip] >> >> That said, there have been a

Re: sysinstall, GJOURNAL and ZFS

2009-06-13 Thread Dan Naumov
issues and I would look into filling my thoughts into them when I have some time? Sincerely, - Dan Naumov On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Scott Ullrich wrote: > Really appreciate all of the advice but I am hoping that it does not > get lost.   Do you mind helping me update the Wiki wit

posting coding bounties, appropriate money amounts?

2010-01-22 Thread Dan Naumov
or through the FreeBSD Foundation? And how would one go about calculating the appropriate amount of money for such a thing? Thanks. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-04 Thread Dan Naumov
investigating panics and similar issues are unintuitive and user-hostile to say the least and anything to automate the process would be a very welcome addition. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Automated kernel crash reporting system

2010-03-05 Thread Dan Naumov
selection of hardware, some conclusions can be reached. - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"