[zfs-discuss] OT: does the LSI 9211-8i fit into the HP N40L?

2012-09-19 Thread Eugen Leitl
Hi again, thanks for all the replies to the all in one with ESXi, it was most illuminating. I will use this setup at my dayjob. Now for a slight variation on a theme: N40L with ESXi with raw drive passthrough, with OpenIndiana/napp-it NFS or iSCSI export of underlying devices. This particular

Re: [zfs-discuss] scripting incremental replication data streams

2012-09-19 Thread Karl Wagner
Hi Edward, My own personal view on this is that the simplest option is the best. In your script, create a new snapshot using one of 2 names. Let's call them SNAPSEND_A and SNAPSEND_B. You can decide which one by checking which currently exists. As manual setup, on the first run, create SNAPS

Re: [zfs-discuss] all in one server

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Collins
On 09/19/12 02:38 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: On 09/18/2012 04:31 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Can I actually have a year's worth of snapshots in zfs without too much performance degradation? Each additional dataset (not sure about snapshots, though) increases boot times slightly, however, I've seen po