Re: [zfs-discuss] XServe Raid & Complex Storage Considerations

2007-04-25 Thread Ben Gollmer
On Apr 25, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Andy Lubel wrote: The Xraid is a very well thought of storage device with a heck of a price point. Attached is an image of the "Settings"/"Performance" Screen where you see "Allow Host Cache Flushing". I think when you use ZFS, it would be best to uncheck that

[zfs-discuss] [OT] Multipathing on Mac OS X

2007-03-01 Thread Ben Gollmer
This is pretty OT, but a bit ago there was some discussion of Mac OS X's multipathing support (or its lack thereof). According to this technote, multipathing support has been included Mac OS X since 10.3.5, but there are some particular requirements on the target devices & HBAs. http://de

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Ben Gollmer
On Jan 24, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Shannon Roddy wrote: I went with a third party FC/SATA unit which has been flawless as a direct attach for my ZFS JBOD system. Paid about $0.70/GB. What did you use, if you don't mind my asking? -- Ben PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [zfs-discuss] A versioning FS

2006-10-07 Thread Ben Gollmer
On Oct 6, 2006, at 6:15 PM, Nicolas Williams wrote: What I'm saying is that I'd like to be able to keep multiple versions of my files without "echo *" or "ls" showing them to me by default. Hmm, what about file.txt -> ._file.txt.1, ._file.txt.2, etc? If you don't like the _ you could use @

Re: [zfs-discuss] (OT: SVN branches) A versioning FS

2006-10-06 Thread Ben Gollmer
On Oct 6, 2006, at 12:18 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On 10/5/06, Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/6/06, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the big problems with CVS and SVN and Microsoft SourceSafe is > that you don't have the benefits of version control most of