Re: [zfs-discuss] Books on File Systems and File System Programming

2009-08-13 Thread Maurice Castro
SYSV FS Newer systems implement things differently but they try not to break the interfaces that these systems established too much. Maurice Castro On 14/08/2009, at 9:02 AM, Louis-Frédéric Feuillette wrote: I saw this question on another mailing list, and I too would like to know. And I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS deduplication

2008-07-07 Thread Maurice Castro
I second this, provided we also check that the data is in fact identical as well. Checksum collisions are likely given the sizes of disks and the sizes of checksums; and some users actually deliberately generate data with colliding checksums (researchers and nefarious users). Dedup must be

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS root finally here in SNV90

2008-06-23 Thread Maurice Castro
for others and so they have made a choice of convenience which can be seriously inconvenient in a shared environment. Maurice Castro On 24/06/2008, at 10:45 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > > I think the ability to have different policies for file systems > is pure goodness -- though you p

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-21 Thread Maurice Castro
an identical disk to the mirror. Maurice Castro On 19/06/2008, at 2:31 PM, Maurice Castro wrote: > Hi All, > I have just installed b90 on an E250 with 2 identical SCSI disks and > zfs root. But I keep getting the error > > cannot attach /dev/rdsk/c0t8d0 to c0t0

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-20 Thread Maurice Castro
So it appears that the instructions that say all you have to do is attach the disk are insufficient when it comes to making a mirrored boot disk under OpenSolaris. Maurice Castro On 21/06/2008, at 9:35 AM, Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:12 PM, John-Paul Drawneek &

[zfs-discuss] Sparc rpool mirror failed

2008-06-18 Thread Maurice Castro
, except that this is the second reinstall and the disks are marked identically. Any suggestions welcome. Maurice Castro ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss