Re: [zfs-discuss] ?: ZFS and jumpstart export race condition

2006-09-15 Thread Scott Dickson - Systems Engineer
How did you get these images on ZFS? Did you just put them yourself or did you run setup_install_server? When I try to use add_install_client, if the image is on ZFS, it refuses. How do you get around that? --SCott Steffen Weiberle wrote: I have a jumpstart server where the install images are

[zfs-discuss] ZFS and HSM

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
I said I had several questions to start threads on What about ZFS and various HSM solutions? Do any of them already work with ZFS? Are any going to? It seems like HSM solutions that access things at a file level would have little trouble integrating with ZFS. But ones that work at a bl

[zfs-discuss] Sequentiality & direct access to a file

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
How does (or does) ZFS maintain sequentiality of the blocks of a file. If I mkfile on a clean UFS, I likely will get contiguous blocks for my file, right? A customer I talked to recently has a desire to access large volumes of sequential data. They were concerned about maintaining this file

[zfs-discuss] Snapshot / Rollback at a file level

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
A customer asked today about the ability to snapshot and rollback individual files. They have an environment where users might generate lots of files, but want only a portion of them to be included in a snapshot. Moreover, typically when they recover a file, they only want one or two of them.

[zfs-discuss] QoS and bandwidth management

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Dickson
I was talking with some customers today and came up with several questions that I don't know the answers to. I'll post these as separate threads so as not to muddy things up too much. It seems like ZFS has a lot more knowledge of what is going on all the way down to the disk level than other