[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Rick Mann
Richard Elling wrote: > For the time being, these SATA disks will operate in IDE compatibility mode, > so > don't worry about the write cache. There is some debate about whether the > write > cache is a win at all, but that is another rat hole. Go ahead and split off > some > space for boot a

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-15 Thread Rick Mann
I'm having a heckuva time posting to individual replies (keep getting exceptions). I have a 1U rackmount server with 4 bays. I don't think there's any way to squeeze in a small IDE drive, and I don't want to reduce the swap transfer rate if I can avoid it. The machine has 4 500 GB SATA drives,

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
Ian Collins wrote: > Bung in (add a USB one if you don't have space) a small boot drive and > use all the others for for ZFS. Not a bad idea; I'll have to see where I can put one. But, I thought I read somewhere that one can't use ZFS for swap. Or maybe I read this: "Slices should only be used

[zfs-discuss] Re: Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
> Hi Rick, > > what do you think about this configuration: > > Part all disks like this > 7GiB > 493GiB > > Make a RAIDz1 out of the 493GiB partitions and a > RAID5 out of the 7GiB > partitions. Create a swap, and the root in the RAID5, > the dirs with the > user data in the ZFS storage. > > Ba

[zfs-discuss] Best use of 4 drives?

2007-06-14 Thread Rick Mann
I'm putting together a NexentaOS (b65)-based server that has 4 500 GB drives on it. Currently it has two, set up as a ZFS mirror. I'm able to boot Nexenta from it, and it seems to work ok. But, as I've learned, the mirror is not properly redundant, and so I can't just have a drive fail (when I p

[zfs-discuss] Difference between "add" and "attach" a device?

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
Hi. I've been reading the ZFS admin guide, and I don't understand the distinction between "adding" a device and "attaching" a device to a pool? TIA This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org htt

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
>From >(http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;?articleID=199903525) --- [...] Seeking to clarify a statement made on Monday by Brian Croll, senior director of Mac OS X Product Marketing, to two InformationWeek reporters that Apple's new "Leopard" operating system would not inclu

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-13 Thread Rick Mann
>On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Rick Mann wrote: >> ZFS Readonly implemntation is loaded! >Is that a copy-n-paste error, or is that typo in the actual output? It's a typo in the actual output. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zf

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-12 Thread Rick Mann
Since the copy I have I did not get through normal channels, I don't have WWDC access to the dev site, so I don't know if it's there or not. However, my friend looked, and couldn't find it, either. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-di

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-11 Thread Rick Mann
I just installed the Leopard beta that was distributed at WWDC. Sadly, the installer provided no ZFS option (the only options were HFS Extended Journaled and a case-sensitive version of the same). However, typing this in the terminal: $ sudo zpool status Returned this: ZFS Readonly implemntat

[zfs-discuss] Re: Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:38:10PM -0300, Toby Thain wrote: > When should we expect Solaris kernel under OS X? 10.6? 10.7? :-) I'm hoping for L4, myself. http://ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/ This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-dis

[zfs-discuss] Mac OS X "Leopard" to use ZFS

2007-06-07 Thread Rick Mann
>From Macintouch (http://macintouch.com/#other.2007.06.07): --- On stage Wednesday in Washington D.C., Sun Microsystems Inc. CEO Jonathan Schwartz revealed that his company's open-source ZFS file system will replace Apple's long-used HFS+ in Mac OS X 10.5, a.k.a. "Leopard," when the new operati