Re: [zfs-discuss] Deduplication Memory Requirements

2011-05-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
blocks that were unforeseen. And that can be a lot, too, as everone who has seen cluttered desktops full of downloaded files can probably confirm. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz, Sales Consultant, Oracle Hardware Presales Germany Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Deleting large amounts of files

2010-07-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
eone can correct me here), the only way to do that is run a scrub-like process and build up a table of files and their blocks. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz | Principal Field Technologist Phone: +49 89 460 08 25 91 || Mobile: +49 172 834 90 30 Oracle Hardware Presales German

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication ratio on Server 2008 backup VHD files

2010-04-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist Blog: constantin.glez.de Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 Twitter: @zalez Sitz d. Ges.: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim

Re: [zfs-discuss] Thoughts on ZFS Pool Backup Strategies

2010-03-22 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
g-incremental-backups/ -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologist Blog: constantin.glez.de Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best 1.5TB drives for consumer RAID?

2010-01-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
p://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Cheers, Constantin -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google.com/search?q

[zfs-discuss] Setting default user/group quotas?

2009-11-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
look something? Thanks, Constantin -- Sent from OpenSolaris, http://www.opensolaris.org/ Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://google

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS commands hang after several zfs receives

2009-09-15 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
em for a while. The IDR I was sent appears to have fixed the problem. I have been abusing the box for a couple of weeks without any lockups. Roll on update 8! Was that IDR140221-17? That one fixed a deadlock bug for us back in May. -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun M

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Crypto Updates [PSARC/2009/443 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-18 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Cryptographic Framework: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crypto/inprogress/padlock/ Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25

Re: [zfs-discuss] Motherboard for home zfs/solaris file server

2009-07-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
ing is only supported on the K10 architecture. But don't expect to much power saving from it. A lower voltage yields far greater savings than a lower frequency. In september I'll do a post about the afore mentioned M4A boards and an lsi sas controller in one of the pcie x16 slots. -- Con

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

2008-10-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> >> Yes, we're both aware of this. In this particular situation, the customer >> would restart his backup job (and thus the client application) in case >> the >> server dies.

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

2008-10-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
27;ll > see some supported PCIe cards by next Spring. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun M

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

2008-10-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Neil Perrin wrote: >> On 10/22/08 10:26, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >>> 3. Disable ZIL[1]. This is of course evil, but one customer pointed out to >>> me >>> that if a tar xvf were writing loca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

2008-10-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
choose whether they want to honor COMMIT requests or not. Disabling ZIL on a per filesystem basis is only the second best solution, but since that CR already exists, it seems to be the more realistic route. Thanks, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez Su

[zfs-discuss] Disabling COMMIT at NFS level, or disabling ZIL on a per-filesystem basis

2008-10-22 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
1]: http://blogs.sun.com/roch/entry/nfs_and_zfs_a_fine [2]: http://blogs.sun.com/perrin/entry/slog_blog_or_blogging_on -- Constantin Gonzalez Sun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Principal Field Technologisthttp://blogs.sun.com/constantin Tel.: +49 89/4

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi, great, thank you. So ZFS isn't picky about finding the target fs already created and attributed when replicating data into it. This is very cool! Best regards, Constantin Darren J Moffat wrote: > Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> Hi Darren, >> >> thank you for t

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
in order to allow for things like >> recompression, en/decryption, change of attributes at the dataset level, >> etc. > > No need this already works this way. > -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Globa

Re: [zfs-discuss] RFE: Start with desired end state in mind...

2008-02-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
on zfs filesystem before receiving > the data. I think that would be a great feature. > > Just some food for thought. > > Thanks in advance, > Brad > > _______ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.op

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-11 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Hi Paul, > # fdisk -E /dev/rdsk/c7t0d0s2 then > # zpool create -f Radical-Vol /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 should work. The warnings you see are just there to double-check you don't overwrite any previously used pool which you may regret. -f overrules that. Hope this helps, Constantin --

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-06 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Maybe it's a USB issue. Have you checked: http://www.sun.com/io_technologies/usb/USB-Faq.html#Storage Especially #19? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http:

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS with Memory Sticks

2007-12-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
will this compatibility be here, or if it's possible now, what > is the secret? > > Paul > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonz

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Best practice for moving FS between pool on same machine?

2007-06-21 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
lesystem to the most recent snapshot. I've written a script to do all of this, but it's only "works on my system" certified. I'd like to get some feedback and validation before I post it on my blog, so anyone, let me know if you want to try it out.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
between space and reliability. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/consta

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
on ZFS. It's full of new concepts and one needs some getting used to to explore all possibilities. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 8

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
rom the 250GB drive then went into a scratch pool. Kinda like playing Tetris with RAID-Z... Later, I decided using just paired disks as mirrors are really more flexible and easier to expand, since disk space is cheap. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] Best practice for moving FS between pool on same machine?

2007-06-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
some confidence before doing it in production. I have a script that automatically does 1-6 that is looking for beta testers. If you're interested, let me know. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Te

[zfs-discuss] New german white paper on ZFS

2007-06-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
for my country. There are also some new ZFS slides that go with it, also in german. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering ht

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

2007-05-25 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
all recursive snapshots correspond to the same moment in time. Or did you mean send -r? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

2007-05-25 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
t too? Cheers, Constantin > > http://blogs.sun.com/timh/entry/friday_fun_with_bfu_and > > lori > > Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a big fan of live upgrade. I'm also a big fan of ZFS boot. The >> latter is >> more import

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: Now, how can I do a pseudo live upgrade?

2007-05-25 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
changed between the clone and the reboot, but is there anything else? - Did someone already blog about this and I haven't noticed yet? Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineerin

Re: [zfs-discuss] raidz pool with a slice on the boot disk

2007-04-24 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
e in the RAID-Z set during certain circumstances and therefore slightly affect the performance of the RAID-Z vdev. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.

[zfs-discuss] A big Thank You to the ZFS team!

2007-04-24 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
alid even if I didn't work for Sun. So please take this email as being written by a private ZFS user and not a Sun employee. So, again, thank you so much ZFS team and keep up the good work! Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH,

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs send/receive question

2007-04-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
replicate to, but just use it as a sink for backup purposes, you can mark it unmountable, then just send stuff to it. zfs set canmount=off pool/filesystem zfs rollback (latest snapshot, one last time) Then, whenever you want to access the receiving filesystem, clone it. Hope this help

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: 3 smaller glitches with console, /etc/dfs/sharetab and /dev/random

2007-04-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
s (other than the t_optmgmt bug) - Then migrated to ZFS boot - Now the sharetab issues shows up. So why did the sharetab issue only show up after the ZFSification of the boot process? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platfo

[zfs-discuss] ZFS boot: 3 smaller glitches with console, /etc/dfs/sharetab and /dev/random

2007-04-19 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
dm list -p claims all is well...). Best regards and again, congratulations to the ZFS boot team! Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 9

Re: [zfs-discuss] Who modified my ZFS receive destination?

2007-04-12 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
s kinda strange. This means, that we'll need to zfs unmount, then zfs rollback a lot when doing send/receive on a regular basis (as in weekly, daily, hourly, minutely cron-jobs) to be sure. Or keep any replicated filesystems unmounted _all_ the time. Best regards, Constantin > > Tre

Summary: [zfs-discuss] Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror drives on a _striped_ pool?

2007-04-12 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
zpool send/receive would be the better way of implementing 5097228 in the first place? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ T

[zfs-discuss] Who modified my ZFS receive destination?

2007-04-12 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
y with no known data errors and the destination pool is brand new and I'm scrubbing it as we speak. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror

2007-04-11 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
x27;cause it's quick, easy and reliable. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constant

Re: [zfs-discuss] Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror drives on a _striped_ pool?

2007-04-11 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
Hi Mark, Mark J Musante wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > >> Has anybody tried it yet with a striped mirror? What if the pool is >> composed out of two mirrors? Can I attach devices to both mirrors, let >> them resilver, then detach them and im

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. rmvolmgr

2007-04-11 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
the drives 2. Find their USB serial numbers with lshal 3. Set up an fdi file that matches the disks and tells hal to ignore them The naming of the file /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/30user/10-ignore-usb.fdi sounds like init.d style directory and file naming, ist this correct? Best regards, Constantin -- Cons

[zfs-discuss] Poor man's backup by attaching/detaching mirror drives on a _striped_ pool?

2007-04-10 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
? What if the pool is composed out of two mirrors? Can I attach devices to both mirrors, let them resilver, then detach them and import the pool from those? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Globa

[zfs-discuss] ZFS vs. rmvolmgr

2007-04-10 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
fine. What and how does ZFS tell rmvolmgr that a particular set of disks belongs to ZFS and should not be treated as removable? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
measure how much CPU overhead RAID-Z and RAID-Z2 parity computation induces, both for writes and for reads (assuming a data disk is broken)? This data would be useful when arguing for a "software RAID" scheme in front of hardware-RAID addicted customers. Best regards, Constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
nless ZFS itself does it. But maybe someone from the ZFS team can clarify this. Cheers, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91

Re: [zfs-discuss] Setting up for zfsboot

2007-04-04 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
t. - When using disks, you need to consider availability, performance and space. Of all the three, space is the cheapest. Therefore it's best to sacrifice space and you'll get better availability and better performance. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] Pathological ZFS performance

2007-03-30 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Rob T > _______ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Syste

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-28 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
nd a final incremental snapshot then zfs set mountpoint=x to the new filesystem, then bring up the services again. Hope this works as I imagine. Cheers, Constantin Matthew Ahrens wrote: > Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> What is the most elegant way of migrating all filesystems to the new &g

Re: [zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-27 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
end pool | zfs receive dest and all blocks would be transferred as they are, including all embedded snapshots. Is that already an RFE? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineer

[zfs-discuss] Migrating a pool

2007-03-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
pool, then run a send (-i) orgy? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ S

[zfs-discuss] CSI:Munich - How to save the world with ZFS and 12 USB Sticks

2007-03-09 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
than the german one :). Have fun, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ Sitz d.

Re: [zfs-discuss] 2-way mirror or RAIDZ?

2007-02-27 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
at a good redundancy/performance compromise. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: ZFS on USB sticks (from Germany)

2007-02-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Constantin > > thx & bye > christian > > Artem Kachitchkine schrieb: >> >>> Brilliant video, guys. >> >> Totally agreed, great work. >> >> Boy, would I like to see Peter Stormare in that video %) >> >> -Artem. > -- Constantin

Re: [zfs-discuss] FYI: ZFS on USB sticks (from Germany)

2007-02-02 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Global Systems Engineering http://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-31 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
move as early as possible, but IMHO this is not an objective barrier to entry for ZFS. Note my use of the word "objective". I do feel that we have to implement zpool remove for subjective reasons, but that is a non technical matter. Is this an agreeable summary of the situation? Bes

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: can I use zfs on just a partition?

2007-01-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
you only should do this on laptos and other machines where you only have 1 disk or are otherwise very disk-limited :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://ww

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: How much do we really want zpool remove?

2007-01-26 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
a customer confcall next week with a customer asking for exactly zpool remove :). -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.s

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: can I use zfs on just a partition?

2007-01-25 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
e above entry to see what I mean. Works great (but I had to use -f to zpool create :) ) and gives me enough performance for all my home-serving needs. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technolog

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

2006-11-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
way to deal with this, then, is to multi-thread on the application layer. Reminds my of many UltraSPARC T1 issues, which don't sit in hardware nor OS, but in the way applications have been developed for years :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

Re: [zfs-discuss] poor NFS/ZFS performance

2006-11-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
plistic in my view of the underlying root of the problem? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http:/

Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie questions about drive problems

2006-08-31 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
more and the faulted state is for pools that do not have enough valid devices to be complete. Hope this helps, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Te

Re: [zfs-discuss] Encryption on ZFS / Disk Usage

2006-08-22 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
blocks. - Compression can be easily switched on for some extra space depending of the nature of the data. See also: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bonwick?entry=raid_z Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Tech

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Load-balancing over vdevs vs. real disks?

2006-08-22 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
ated for the gain achieved. So what data does ZFS base it's dynamic stripig on? Does it count IOPs per vdev or does it try to sense the load on the vdevs by measuring, say response times, queue leghts etc.? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezS

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Load-balancing over vdevs vs. real disks?

2006-08-21 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
sical disk at once? I'm pretty sure ZFS is very intelligent and will do the right thing, but a confirmation would be nice here. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutions

Re: [zfs-discuss] Home Server with ZFS

2006-08-18 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
ance. Interesting, Teris-like calculation exercise that I'd be happy to blog about when I'm done. Feel free to visit my blog for how to set up your home server as a ZFS iTunes streaming server :). Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSu

Re: [zfs-discuss] Proposal: user-defined properties

2006-08-18 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
t properties may be case-insensitive. Is that the case (sorry for the pun)? If so, that should be noted in the user defined property definition just for clarity. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Pl

Re: [zfs-discuss] Enabling compression/encryption on a populated filesystem

2006-07-18 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
; > > ---- > > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-disc

Re: [zfs-discuss] [raidz] file not removed: No space left on device

2006-07-04 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
e use unlink(1M) in these cases? Best regards, Constantin > > - Eric > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: >> Hi, >> >> of course, the reason for this is the copy-on-write approach: ZFS has >> to write new blocks first bef

Re: [zfs-discuss] [raidz] file not removed: No space left on device

2006-07-03 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
m' message.) > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > ___ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Constantin Gonzalez

[zfs-discuss] add_install_client and ZFS and SMF incompatibility

2006-06-23 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
r mount all ZFS filesystems from hand, then re-run mount_all or replace the vfstab entry with a simple symlink. Which only works until you say add_install_client the next time. Is this a known issue? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, G

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and Flash archives

2006-06-20 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
aware and if so, is it ZFS aware in S10u2b09a? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.su

Re: [zfs-discuss] user undo

2006-05-30 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
ctionality (i.e. RecycleBin from within Nautilus (as it already does), and true deletion via "rm"). -Erik -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup/Restore of ZFS Properties

2006-05-30 Thread Constantin Gonzalez Schmitz
7;t unpack everything if you just turn off compression). Can anybody clarify? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 6

Re: [zfs-discuss] A .zfs/info file

2006-05-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
appropriate. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ ___

Re: [zfs-discuss] user undo

2006-05-29 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
o separate undo-snapshots from user-triggered ones, the undo-code could place its snapshots in .zfs/snapshots/undo . Did I miss something why undo can't be implemented with snapshots? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems Gm

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea

2006-05-09 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
en go with it. Best regards, Constantin Tim Foster wrote: Hey Constantin, On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that what we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage snapshot

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
cient or not generic enough for all users to be really useful. Feel free to add to the lists so we can make up our minds. Maybe this can evolve into something the ZFS team may be interested in. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems Gm

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...

2006-05-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
gards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 http://blogs.sun.com/constantin/ __

Re: [zfs-discuss] Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...

2006-05-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
space on disk for keeping snapshots as part of overall snapshot management are definitely something that ZFS can do much better internally, as opposed to having to implement it with some other app. Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystem

[zfs-discuss] Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...

2006-05-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
that you may find useful". The basic idea behind this whole thinking is to maximize utilization of free blocks. If your disk utilization is only 50%, why not use the other 50% for snapshots by default, that could save your life? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin Gonzalez

[zfs-discuss] ZFS: More information on ditto blocks?

2006-05-05 Thread Constantin Gonzalez
plied how often? Best regards, Constantin -- Constantin GonzalezSun Microsystems GmbH, Germany Platform Technology Group, Client Solutionshttp://www.sun.de/ Tel.: +49 89/4 60 08-25 91 h