Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Ian Collins wrote: > Oliver Schinagl wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> >>>> However, I found on the liveDVD/CD that nexentia and beleniX both don't >>>> come in x86_64 flavors? Or does solaris a

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Ian Collins wrote: > Oliver Schinagl wrote: > >> Ian Collins wrote: >> >> >>> Oliver Schinagl wrote: >>> >>>> once I boot it in 64bit mode, i'd have to run emulation libraries to run >>>> 32bit bins ri

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Oliver Schinagl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> However, I found on the liveDVD/CD that nexentia and beleniX both don't >> come in x86_64 flavors? Or does solaris autodetect and auto run in 64bit >> mode at boottime? >> > > Solaris autodetects the CPU type and boots in 64 bit mode on 64 bit > CPUs and in 32 bit

[zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Hi, I'm still debating wether I should use ZFS or not and how. Here is my scenario. I want to run a server with a lot of storage, that gets disks added/upgraded from time to time to expand space. I'd want to store large files on it, 15mb - 5gb per file, and they'd only need to be accessible via N

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Schinagl
ems to be unused/disapeard because of that same reason. So I can see why desktop search and the like is getting so popular, people make a mess out of their system, requiring tool/methods to find stuff again. Anyway, this isn't really the right place to rant right :) Toby Thain wrote: > &

Re: [zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-28 Thread Oliver Schinagl
that the 'revolutionairy' new thing about reiser4 was that it tracked meta data somehow, makeing desktop searches MUCH faster. Don't ask me about the details, i'm no filesystem wiz :) but i'm sure someone familiar with Reiser3/4 hopefully ellaborate? Darren J Moffat sc

[zfs-discuss] ReiserFS4 like metadata/search

2007-06-27 Thread Oliver Schinagl
The only thing I haven't found in zfs yet, is metadata etc info. The previous 'next best thing' in FS was of course ReiserFS (4). Reiser3 was quite a nice thing, fast, journaled and all that, but Reiser4 promised to bring all those things that we see emerging now, like cross FS search, any documen

Re: [zfs-discuss] Shrinking of Pools.

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the reasons i switched back from X/JFS to ReiserFS on my linux box was that I couldn't shrink the FS ontop of my LVM, which was highly annoying. Also sometimes you might wanna just remove a disk from your array: Say you setup up a mirrored ZFS with 2 120gb disks.

[zfs-discuss] Shrinking of Pools.

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
I'm reading the administration guide pdf and noticed that it claims that at the moment ZFS does not support shrinking of the pool. Will this feature be added in the future? Also expanding of raid-z is not yet supported, will this also change? One of the reasons i switched back from X/JFS to Reiser

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
mike wrote: > On 6/20/07, Constantin Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One disk can be one vdev. >> A 1+1 mirror can be a vdev, too. >> A n+1 or n+2 RAID-Z (RAID-Z2) set can be a vdev too. >> >> - Then you concatenate vdevs to create a pool. Pools can be extended by >> adding more vdev

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 01:45:29PM +0200, Oliver Schinagl wrote: > >> Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:52:28PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> On t

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Constantin Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > >> I'm quite interested in ZFS, like everybody else I suppose, and am about >> to install FBSD with ZFS. >> > > welcome to ZFS! > > >> Anyway, back to business :) >> I have a whole bunch of different sized disks/speeds. E.g. 3 300GB disks >> @ 40mb,

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-20 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 07:52:28PM -0700, Richard Elling wrote: > >>> On that note, i have a different first question to start with. I >>> personally am a Linux fanboy, and would love to see/use ZFS on linux. I >>> assume that I can use those ZFS disks later with a

[zfs-discuss] ZFS Scalability/performance

2007-06-19 Thread Oliver Schinagl
Hello, I'm quite interested in ZFS, like everybody else I suppose, and am about to install FBSD with ZFS. On that note, i have a different first question to start with. I personally am a Linux fanboy, and would love to see/use ZFS on linux. I assume that I can use those ZFS disks later with any o