Re: [zfs-discuss] Cifs and Solaris

2008-04-18 Thread Sengor
Hi all, A bit confused now... Wasn't Samba an implementation of CIFS which also runs on Solaris? On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Zlotnick Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > The in-kernel CIFS stack is not in Solaris 10 Upd

Re: [zfs-discuss] Backup-ing up ZFS configurations

2008-03-23 Thread Sengor
Hi, I don't have a ZFS box handy right now, but perhaps Sun Explorer would generate something about ZFS/zpools which details the overall configs. Just a thought. On 3/21/08, Sachin Palav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Friends > > Can someone please let me know how I can backup the ZFS confi

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Fred Zlotnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, of course, many other enterprise customers _have_ adopted > ZFS, and are quite happy with it. For a list of ZFS reference > customers please contact Solaris Marketing. ZFS is used in many > mission critical roles today, and by and large

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Paul Kraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suspect that the amount of changes / discussion is no less > for ZFS than for any new filesystem, just that due to the open source > nature of it the discussions are in public view. The fact that the > issues *are* being discussed is a h

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/19/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On what do you base that statement ? > > How do you "see" what enterprises are adopting ? > > State your sources please. Out of the many I work on only one's been keen on adopting it any time soon, another one's planning to look into it but

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/18/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Simply FUD. I don't see many enterprises adopting ZFS even though it's been officially out for a while now. Looking over the mailing list and numbers of ZFS patches, it's enough to scare lots of people away. Don't get me wrong, I believe ZF

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs comparison

2008-01-18 Thread Sengor
On 1/17/08, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Pardon my ignorance, but is ZFS with compression safe to use in a > > production environment? > > Yes, why wouldn't it be ? If it wasn't safe it wouldn't have been > delivered. Few reasons - http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2007/11/28/

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS versus VxFS as file system inside Netbackup 6.0 DSSU

2008-01-15 Thread Sengor
Veritas products tend to work best with... well... other Veritas products. On 1/11/08, Patrick Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello experts, > > > We have a large implementation of Symantec Netbackup 6.0 with disk staging. > Today, the customer is using VxFS as file system inside Netbackup

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Bug: Value too large for defined data type

2008-01-06 Thread Sengor
Hi, Not sure if it's the case here. However I've seen "Value too large for defined data type" errors on systems which had date (year) set incorrectly. On 1/7/08, Arne Schwabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange problem with a zfs filesystem. > > zfs scrub stuff reports no error

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-29 Thread Sengor
On 12/29/07, Robert Milkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One good feature in VxVM/VxFS is an ability to shrink a "pool" or > change RAID on-the-fly. Then you can change speed of resilvering or > even freeze it if you want. Hot spare support is probably still better > (I haven't looked at latest i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-28 Thread Sengor
I believe it will work on systems wich have more than 2 cores, however only 2 would actually end up being used by VxSF & 4 volumes is not a hard software limit from what I understand. It's important to note it will not come with any support, perhaps this is another point where ZFS rises above in t

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-28 Thread Sengor
While on a VCS course on a Symantec site, I was told VxVM is planned to be open sourced some time in near future. In either case the cost is a large factor here, VxVM does not come cheap (unless you use VxSF Basic http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=sfbasic which is free). I see Vx

Re: [zfs-discuss] Help needed ZFS vs Veritas Comparison

2007-12-28 Thread Sengor
Perhaps a few that might help: http://www.sun.com/software/whitepapers/solaris10/zfs_veritas.pdf http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/stn/articles/article_detail.jsp?articleid=SF_and_ZFS_whitepaper_44545 http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3663066 I'm yet to see a side by side features

Re: [zfs-discuss] /usr/bin and /usr/xpg4/bin differences

2007-12-15 Thread Sengor
Hi, It's a different version in terms of the Unix standard it complies to: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5221/6mbcm38u8?l=en&a=view On 12/16/07, KASTURI VENKATA SESHA SASIDHAR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I am working on open solaris bugs .. and need to change the code