Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Michael DeMan
I think on this, the big question is going to be whether Oracle continues to release ZFS updates under CDDL after their commercial releases. Overall, in the past it has obviously and necessarily been the case that FreeBSD has been a '2nd class citizen'. Moving forward, that 2nd class idea becom

Re: [zfs-discuss] A resilver record?

2011-03-23 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > > Our main backups storage server has 3x 8-drive raidz2 vdevs. Was > > replacing the 500 GB drives in one vdev with 1 TB drives. The last 2 > > drives took just under 300 hours each. :( The first couple drives > > took approx 150 ho

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Ian Collins
On 03/24/11 07:28 AM, David Magda wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 13:31, Linder, Doug wrote: Toby Thain wrote: Linder, Doug wrote: [Minor] From: v...@hostname.ourdomain.com "/directoryname" Time: 3/23/2011 3:02:25 AM [ 81:84 ] /directoryname Can

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread David Magda
On Wed, March 23, 2011 13:31, Linder, Doug wrote: > Toby Thain wrote: >> Linder, Doug wrote: >>> Warning] From: v...@hostname.ourdomain.com >>> "/directoryname" Time: 3/23/2011 >>> 3:02:25 AM >> /directoryname >>> Directory is a mount point to a dif

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Linder, Doug
Toby Thain wrote: > Wouldn't this firstly be a question for the vendor of Vormetric? Yes, and we've asked. Alas, they haven't been able to help so far. For all we know it might be a bug in Data Protector, too. But we do know for sure that it works with UFS but not ZFS. On 23/03/11 12:13 P

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Toby Thain
On 23/03/11 12:13 PM, Linder, Doug wrote: > OK, I know this is only tangentially related to ZFS, but we’re desperate > and I thought someone might have a clue or idea of what kind of thing to > look for. Also, this issue is holding up widespread adoption of ZFS at > our shop. It’s making the powe

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and standard backup programs

2011-03-23 Thread Linder, Doug
OK, I know this is only tangentially related to ZFS, but we're desperate and I thought someone might have a clue or idea of what kind of thing to look for. Also, this issue is holding up widespread adoption of ZFS at our shop. It's making the powers-that-be balk a little - understandably. If

[zfs-discuss] Any use for extra drives?

2011-03-23 Thread Nomen Nescio
Hi ladies and gents, I've got a new Solaris 10 development box with ZFS mirror root using 500G drives. I've got several extra 320G drives and I'm wondering if there's any way I can use these to good advantage in this box. I've got enough storage for my needs with the 500G pool. At this point I woul

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Paul Kraus
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > For a lot of reasons, Solaris has a long list of very superior functionality > that make is very appealing for appliance makers.  Right now, we see that in > two areas:  ZFS for storage, and high scaleability for DBs (the various > Oracle Exa

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Erik Trimble
On 3/23/2011 6:14 AM, Deano wrote: OpenIndiana and others (i.e. Benunix) are distributions that actively support full desktop workstations based on the Illumos base. It is true, that the storage server application is a popular one and so has supporters both commercially and others. ZFS is amazin

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Deano
OpenIndiana and others (i.e. Benunix) are distributions that actively support full desktop workstations based on the Illumos base. It is true, that the storage server application is a popular one and so has supporters both commercially and others. ZFS is amazing and quite rightly it stands out, it

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Edho P Arief
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Nikola M. wrote: > I think site: Phoronix.com already did comparisons with ZFS under several > platforms and other (Linux) file systems without sweat. with single disk configuration no less (er, more) ;) You may want to check this instead: http://www.zfsbuild.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Nikola M.
On 03/23/11 09:07 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:54:54PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:22:01PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: Newer versions of FreeBSD have newer ZFS code. Yes,

Re: [zfs-discuss] best migration path from Solaris 10

2011-03-23 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 01:54:54PM +0700, Fajar A. Nugraha wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:22:01PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > >> Newer versions of FreeBSD have newer ZFS code. > > > > Yes, we are at v28 at this point (the las