[zfs-discuss] good source for semi-obscure mobos and other components

2007-09-15 Thread Harold Ancell
At 11:23 PM 9/14/2007, Rob Windsor wrote: >Tim Cook wrote: >> Won't come cheap, but this mobo comes with 6x pci-x slots... should get the >> job done :) >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE-X.cfm > >Yes, but where do you buy SuperMicro toys? Newegg is the fir

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-06 Thread Harold Ancell
At 11:06 AM 9/6/2007, Al Hopper wrote: >On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Harold Ancell wrote: > >>At 09:33 AM 9/6/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> This is my personal opinion and all, but even knowing that Sun >>>encourages open conversations on these mailing l

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS/WAFL lawsuit

2007-09-06 Thread Harold Ancell
At 09:33 AM 9/6/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is my personal opinion and all, but even knowing that Sun >encourages open conversations on these mailing lists and blogs it seems to >falter common sense for people from @sun.com to be commenting on this >topic. It seems like something u

[zfs-discuss] A possible interim alternative to ZFS boot

2007-06-04 Thread Harold Ancell
The following occurred to me as I'm in the process of debugging a SCSI boot problem (immediate reboot after I tell GRUB to "go" on a Tyan S2865 with a LSI Logic LSI20160B-F; every other possible use of the LSI board works.): While for the sake of simplicity and robustness we'd *like* everything to

Re: [zfs-discuss] Solaris Backup Server

2007-05-16 Thread Harold Ancell
At 11:42 PM 5/15/2007, Michael Hale wrote: >On May 15, 2007, at 9:32 PM, Hazvinei Mugwagwa wrote: > >>I have an opensolaris server running with a raidz zfs pool with >>almost 1TB of storage. This is intended to be a central >>fileserver via samba and ftp for all sorts of purposes. I also wan

Re: [zfs-discuss] Optimal strategy (add or replace disks) to build a cheap and raidz?

2007-05-06 Thread Harold Ancell
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 08:17:41 -0700 From: Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Harold Ancell wrote: At 04:41 AM 5/5/2007, Christian Rost wrote: For what and when to buy, I observe two things: at some point you HAVE to buy something; with disks exceeding Moores Law (

Re: [zfs-discuss] Optimal strategy (add or replace disks) to build a cheap and raidz?

2007-05-05 Thread Harold Ancell
At 04:41 AM 5/5/2007, Christian Rost wrote: >My Question now: >Is the second way reasonable or do i missing some things? Anything else to >consider? Pardon me for jumping into a group I just joined, but I sense you are asking sort of a "philosophy of buying" question, and I have a different one