Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/wofs.ps.gz > > > Jörg > Hi Jörg, This link doesn't work. If possible, could you make it as an attachment? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@openso

Re: [zfs-discuss] (politics) Sharks in the waters

2007-09-08 Thread Gary Gendel
Thanks Jim for the entertainment. I was party to a similar mess. My father owned an operated a small Electrical Supply business that I worked at since the age of 8. I was recently pulled into a large class-action Asbestos suit against the business since I was the only one still alive through t

[zfs-discuss] Requirements for a bootable zfs filesystem

2007-09-08 Thread Jason King
Just playing around a bit w/ zfs + zfs root (no particularly good reason other than to just mess around a bit), and I hit an issue that I suspect is simple to fix, but I cannot seem to figure out what that is. I wanted to try (essentially) doing a very manual install to an empty zfs filesystem. So

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Robert Thurlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> For NFSv2/v3, there's no easy answers. Some have experimented >> with executable automounter maps that build a list of filesystems >> on the fly, but ick. At some point, some of the global namespace >> ideas we kick around may benefit NFSv2/v3 as well. > > > The q

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Bakul Shah
> why are you providing disk space to students? > > When you solve this problem, the quota problem is moot. > > NB. I managed a large University network for several years, and > am fully aware of the costs involved. I do not believe that the > 1960s timeshare model will survive in such environme

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Stephen Usher
Richard Elling wrote: > Stephen Usher wrote: >> I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading >> the comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: >> > > Welcome Steve, > I think you'll find that we rehash this about every quarter with an > extra kicker just befo

Re: [zfs-discuss] zpool degraded status after resilver completed

2007-09-08 Thread Stuart Anderson
Possibly related is the fact that fmd is now in a CPU spin loop constantly checking the time, even tough there are no reported faults, i.e., # fmdump -v TIME UUID SUNW-MSG-ID fmdump: /var/fm/fmd/fltlog is empty # svcs fmd STATE STIMEFMR

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Mike Gerdts
On 9/8/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changing the topic slightly, the strategic question is: > why are you providing disk space to students? For most programming and productivity (e.g. word processing, etc.) people will likely be better suited by having network access for their p

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Elling
Stephen Usher wrote: > I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading the > comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: > Welcome Steve, I think you'll find that we rehash this about every quarter with an extra kicker just before school starts in the fall. Cha

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O freeze after a disk failure

2007-09-08 Thread Richard Elling
Gino wrote: "cfgadm -al" or "devfsadm -C" didn't solve the >> problem. >> After a reboot ZFS recognized the drive as failed >> and all worked well. >> Do we need to restart Solaris after a drive >> failure?? >> >> It depends... >>

Re: [zfs-discuss] I/O freeze after a disk failure

2007-09-08 Thread Gino
> >> "cfgadm -al" or "devfsadm -C" didn't solve the > problem. > >> After a reboot ZFS recognized the drive as failed > and all worked well. > >> > >> Do we need to restart Solaris after a drive > failure?? > > It depends... > ... on which version of Solaris you are running. ZFS > FMA phase 2 wa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-08 Thread David Hopwood
Al Hopper wrote: > So back to patent portfolios: yes there will be (public and private) > posturing; yes there will be negotiations; and, ultimately, there will > be a resolution. All of this won't affect ZFS or anyone running ZFS. It matters a great deal what the resolution is. The best outcom

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Casper . Dik
>For NFSv2/v3, there's no easy answers. Some have experimented >with executable automounter maps that build a list of filesystems >on the fly, but ick. At some point, some of the global namespace >ideas we kick around may benefit NFSv2/v3 as well. The question for me is: why does this work fo

Re: [zfs-discuss] New zfs pr0n server :)))

2007-09-08 Thread Diego Righi
ok, for the sake of science (!!!), I've turned upside down 4 disks, and took mandatory pics: http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver11nf5.jpg http://img465.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver12nw8.jpg http://img482.imageshack.us/my.php?image=zfspr0nserver13mj8.jpg http://img465