Re: [zfs-discuss] (Practical) limit on the number of snapshots?

2010-01-08 Thread Peter van Gemert
> By having a snapshot you > are not releasing the > space forcing zfs to allocate new space from other > parts of a disk > drive. This may lead (depending on workload) to more > fragmentation, less > localized data (more and longer seeks). > ZFS uses COW (copy on write) during writes. This me

[zfs-discuss] ZFS concat pool

2009-01-28 Thread Peter van Gemert
I have a need to created pool that only concatenates the LUNS assigned to it. The default for a pool is stripe and other possibilities are mirror, raidz and raidz2. Is there any way I can create concat pools. Main reason is that the underlying LUNs are already striping and we do not want to st

[zfs-discuss] Re: ZFS Inexpensive SATA Whitebox

2006-10-11 Thread Peter van Gemert
Hi There, You might want to check the HCL at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl to find out which hardware is supported by Solaris 10. Greetings, Peter This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org h

[zfs-discuss] pools are zfs file systems?

2006-07-07 Thread Peter van Gemert
Can anyone tell me why pool created with zpool are also zfs file systems (and mounted) which can be used for storing files? It would have been more transparent if pool would not allow the storage of files. This message posted from opensolaris.org __