Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Michael Johnson
on 11/07/2010 15:54 Andriy Gapon said the following: >on 11/07/2010 14:21 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk said the following: >> >> I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) >> and giving it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to >> configure as a raidz2 volume.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 11, 2010, at 5:11 PM, Freddie Cash wrote: > ZFS-FUSE is horribly unstable, although that's more an indication of > the stability of the storage stack on Linux. Not really, more an indication of the pseudo-VFS layer implemented in fuse. Remember fuse provides it's own VFS API separate fro

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-11 Thread Tim Cook
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- > > boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Peter Taps > > > > A few companies have already backed out of zfs > > as they cannot afford to go through a lawsuit. > > Or, in the

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: >> I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving >> it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a raidz2 >> volume. > > Wouldn't it be better or just as good to use fuse-zfs for such a

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Sun, 11 Jul 2010, Philippe Schwarz wrote: But, at the end of the copy process (copy a 1GB file from & to the same pool), the used capacity of the ZIL remains unchanged... Puzzling.. - - And ,last but not least... the copy isn't faster at all! Note that the slog device is only used for sync

Re: [zfs-discuss] Legality and the future of zfs...

2010-07-11 Thread David Magda
On Jul 10, 2010, at 14:20, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: A few companies have already backed out of zfs as they cannot afford to go through a lawsuit. Or, in the case of Apple, who could definitely afford a lawsuit, but choose to avoid it anyway. This was covered already: http://mail.opensola

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption?

2010-07-11 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
I'm planning on running FreeBSD in VirtualBox (with a Linux host) and giving it raw disk access to four drives, which I plan to configure as a raidz2 volume. Wouldn't it be better or just as good to use fuse-zfs for such a configuration? I/O from VirtualBox isn't really very good, but then

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Erik Trimble
On 7/11/2010 3:21 AM, Philippe Schwarz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i bought a little SSD (OCZ Agility 30GB) and added half to L2ARC and second half to ZIL: zpool add zfsda1 log da3s2 zpool add zfsda1 cache da3s1 zpool status pool: zfsda1 state: ONLINE scrub:

Re: [zfs-discuss] Should i enable Write-Cache ?

2010-07-11 Thread Philippe Schwarz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 09/07/2010 01:37, Edward Ned Harvey a écrit : >> From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss- >> boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Philippe Schwarz >> . > But if you're impressed with performance by enabling writeback, you can