Re: [zfs-discuss] De-duplication in ZFS

Great question. I've been wondering this myself over the past few weeks, as de-dup is becoming more popular a term in our IT department. -john On Jan 20, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Narayan Venkat wrote: > Hi, > > Is de-duplication in ZFS an active project? If so, can somebody > share details about

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:47 AM, MP wrote: >> I evaled one of these too. Worked great with ZFS. > > Was that with OpenSolaris and was that with or without the Intel > RAID controller? > Cheers. Solaris 10 8/07, it was with the built-in RAID controller. -john _

Re: [zfs-discuss] Nice chassis for ZFS server

On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Ross wrote: > Rumours are that Dell are going to start supporting ZFS now they're > shipping Solaris. I'm waiting to see if there are going to be some > nice little boxes from them :) I evaled one of these too. Worked great with ZFS.

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Features when Using Enterprise Arrays

On Aug 3, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Tomas Ögren wrote: > On 03 August, 2007 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent me these 1,6K bytes: > >> When using an array's RAID schemes, what higher level ZFS >> features are not in play when ZFS Stripes/Concats are used without >> using >> any ZFS RaidZ or mirrors? >> >> I u

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS and powerpath

On Jul 15, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Peter Tribble wrote: > On 7/13/07, Torrey McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> ZFS needs to use the top level multipath device or bad things will >> probably happen in a failover or in initial zpool creation. Fopr >> example: You'll try to use the device on two path

Re: [zfs-discuss] OT: extremely poor experience with Sun Download Manager

On Jun 14, 2007, at 8:58 AM, Michael Schuster wrote: People, indeed, even though interesting and a problem, this is OT. I suggest that everyone who has trouble with SDM address it to the people who actually work on it - especially if you're a (potential) customer. Michael, for the sake