[zfs-discuss] Re: Proposal: user-defined properties

2006-08-29 Thread Junchao Wu
That is very useful feature! I have two questions for you. 1. How to get all the user defined properties? 2. Are there any length limitation for user defined properties and the value? - Junchao This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] migrating data across boxes

2006-08-29 Thread John Beck
My old desktop (with SCSI disks) died, and I'd been limping along on a loaner until the new one (with SATA disks) arrived, which happened yesterday. The steps needed to migrate the data from one to the other turned out to be remarkably simple, so I thought I would share them in case anyone else ev

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 8/29/06, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. If you combine this with a de-duplication algorithm you could get really space-efficient backups. Suppose you have 100 (or 1000, or 1) machines to back up that are the same 3 GB OS image + mixed bag of a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Boyd Adamson
On 30/08/2006, at 5:17 AM, James Dickens wrote: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an awesome idea. Use the power of rsync and ZFS together. Start with a one or two large SATA/PATA drives if you use two and don't need the space y

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:17:06PM -0500, James Dickens wrote: > ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I've long thought that network filesystem protocols could implement portion of the rsync algorithm, namely: - servers could compute rsync rolling CRC file checksums - ZFS could do it at the lowe

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Frank Cusack
On August 29, 2006 3:17:21 PM -0500 James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/29/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On August 29, 2006 2:17:06 PM -0500 James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. Seems to me 'zfs send | zfs recv' would be both faster

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread James Dickens
On 8/29/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On August 29, 2006 2:17:06 PM -0500 James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. Seems to me 'zfs send | zfs recv' would be both faster and more efficient. only if you assume, the source is ZFS, with rsync and z

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Frank Cusack
On August 29, 2006 2:17:06 PM -0500 James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. Seems to me 'zfs send | zfs recv' would be both faster and more efficient. -frank ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread Jason A. Hoffman
On Aug 29, 2006, at 12:17 PM, James Dickens wrote: ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an awesome idea. Use the power of rsync and ZFS together. Start with a one or two large SATA/PATA drives if you use two and don't need the spac

[zfs-discuss] ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids.

2006-08-29 Thread James Dickens
ZFS + rsync, backup on steroids. I was thinking today about backing up filesystems, and came up with an awesome idea. Use the power of rsync and ZFS together. Start with a one or two large SATA/PATA drives if you use two and don't need the space you can mirror other wise just use as in raid0, en

Re: [zfs-discuss] new ZFS links page

2006-08-29 Thread James Dickens
On 8/29/06, Noel Dellofano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey everybody, I'd like to announce the addition of a "ZFS Links" page on the Opensolaris ZFS community page. If you have any links to articles that pertain to ZFS that you find useful or should be shared with the community as a whole, please

[zfs-discuss] new ZFS links page

2006-08-29 Thread Noel Dellofano
Hey everybody, I'd like to announce the addition of a "ZFS Links" page on the Opensolaris ZFS community page. If you have any links to articles that pertain to ZFS that you find useful or should be shared with the community as a whole, please let us know and we'll add it to the page. http

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS 'quot' command

2006-08-29 Thread Matthew Ahrens
William Fretts-Saxton wrote: This was asked before, but was not responded to. Is there a ZFS equivalent to the 'quot' command? No. --matt ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discu

[zfs-discuss] ZFS 'quot' command

2006-08-29 Thread William Fretts-Saxton
This was asked before, but was not responded to. Is there a ZFS equivalent to the 'quot' command? ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss