Re: [zfs-discuss] Newbie question

2010-09-05 Thread Norm Jacobs
On 09/ 5/10 07:18 PM, Gary Gendel wrote: I would like to migrate my home directories to a new mirror. Currently, I have them in rpool: rpool/export rpool/export/home I've created a mirror pool, users. I figure the steps are: 1) snapshot rpool/export/home zfs snapshot rpool/export/h...@

Re: [zfs-discuss] User level transactional API

2010-08-12 Thread Norm Jacobs
For single file updates, this is commonly solved by writing data to a temp file and using rename(2) to move it in place when it's ready. -Norm On 08/12/10 04:51 PM, Jason wrote: Has any thought been given to exposing some sort of transactional API for ZFS at the user level (even if just

Re: [zfs-discuss] Not a tragedy just a question

2009-10-15 Thread Norm Jacobs
Harry Putnam wrote: I've been running mirrored disks on several pairs of disks. Mostly on the advice of old timers here. I wondered if I were to do something like `rm -rf /$SomeUnexpectedlyEmptyVar' flattening and removing `/', would I be able to retrieve it from the mirror? no, the syst

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfssupport?

2009-09-16 Thread Norm Jacobs
Roland Mainz wrote: Robert Thurlow wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: Ok... does that mean that I have to create a ZFS filesystem to actually test ([1]) an application which modifies ZFS/NFSv4 ACLs or are there any other options ? By all means, test with ZFS. But it's easy to do that:

Re: [zfs-discuss] [osol-discuss] Which kind of ACLs does tmpfs support ?

2009-09-16 Thread Norm Jacobs
I have some vague recollection that tmpfs doesn't support ACLs snd it appears to be so... ZFS opensolaris% touch /var/tmp/bar opensolaris% chmod A=user:lp:r:deny /var/tmp/bar opensolaris% TMPFS opensolaris% touch /tmp/bar opensolaris% chmod A=user:lp:r:deny /tmp/bar chmod: