Re: [zfs-discuss] Opensolaris is apparently dead

2010-08-16 Thread BM
mples: > > (1) http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=1 My little few yen in this massacre: Phoronix usually compares apples with oranges and pigs with candies. So be careful. > Disclaimer: I use Reiser4 A "Killer FS"™. :-) -- Kind regards, BM Th

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

2010-07-15 Thread BM
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Linder, Doug wrote: > Hint: enterprise-class support != consumer-class support. > You buy consumer hardware, you pay consumer prices, > you get consumer support. +1 -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends

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

2010-07-15 Thread BM
> acceptable in farms, where some number of failed systems is acceptable. > > +1. The only thing that SuperMicro is not what you hurry to call "commodity": http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/files/SAS2/SAS2_1004.pdf — these boxes works just fine. YMMV though. Cheers. -- Ki

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

2010-07-15 Thread BM
om especially IBM that is not even a real IBM, but a third-party company, or HP or Dell or especially Sun, which has even much more quirks and hassles around than SuperMicro support. Besides, before you post a nonsenses here rudely insulting people, do some little homework by trying googling nex

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

2010-07-15 Thread BM
quot; — I meant that BSD and Linux lacks of lots of things that Solaris can do. And, yes, net_privaddr allows you to run anything below 1000 port from true non-root. :) -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. __

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

2010-07-15 Thread BM
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Frank Cusack wrote: > Um, there's plenty of things Solaris can do that Linux and FreeBSD can't > do, but non-root privileged ports is not one of them. Unfortunately, yes... :( -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarel

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
problems that we have with HP or Dell or Sun or IBM boxes. So could you please elaborate your statements? I would appreciate that (and some other folks here as well would be interested to listen to your lesson). Thank you. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely en

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
estion about Snow Leopard serial number correctness quince. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
ested in hearing any more of the whining about > how terrible things are. However, if you want to work on a positive > solution, contact me out of band and I'll talk with you more. As long as Oracle will restore OpenSolaris almost dead community. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
e called "Super Nexenta Version 134". :-) Currently from what I see, I think Nexenta will also die eventually. Because of BTRFS for Linux, Linux's popularity itself and also thanks to the Oracle's help. Sorry telling this to you, working @nexenta.com though... You, guys, are doing

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
oblem. Do I need such "support"? No. Not at all. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
s) won't build stuff for Larry just for free. We need OS back opened in reward. So I think OpenSolaris is pretty much game over, thanks to the Oracle. Some Oracle fanboys might call it a plain FUD, hope to get updates etc, but the reality is that Oracle to OpenSolaris is pretty much the same wha

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
n pure list price costs $3,962, one year warranty. And now identical Supermicro 6016T-TF with exactly the same config/warranty for the full price what I have to pull out my wallet is $2,190 — which is mostly as twice as cheaper. I think red Oracle logo label (or blue Sun's) must cost th

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

2010-07-14 Thread BM
I installed the thing from USB stick. After that everything is OK. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

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

2010-07-13 Thread BM
ogy (which would be great if that would happen). I wish I am wrong, but looks to me pretty much game over, folks: Oracle appeared to be complete idiots towards the community. Same probably will happen to Java. :-( -- Kind regards, BM Things, that

Re: [zfs-discuss] Loss of L2ARC SSD Behaviour

2010-05-06 Thread BM
, the others will continue to function. Impact: a little performance losing, some time needs to warm them up and sort things out. No serious consequences or data loss here. Take care, folks. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Oracle to no longer support ZFS on OpenSolaris?

2010-04-22 Thread BM
and thus just shaking an air with no meaning behind. Take care. -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread BM
On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 9:24 AM, BM wrote: > EFI is a label, that differs from the VTOC mainly by supporting larger > than 2GB disks (exceptions are SCSI and SSD drives) I mean, TB. :-) -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up

Re: [zfs-discuss] Moving a pool from FreeBSD 8.0 to opensolaris

2009-12-24 Thread BM
nical challenge to FreeBSD community when nobody has any idea when things is gonna be done/released there anyway), but you might contact Rui Paulo (rpaulo@) on this topic. Although I don't know how things are moving forward in order to support ZFS on Windows. :-) Take care. -- Kind regards, BM