Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs corruption w/ sil3114 sata controllers

2007-10-30 Thread Stephen Usher
One thing to check before you blame your controller: Are the SATA cables close together for an extended length? Basically, most SATA cables will generate massive levels of cross-talk between them if they're tied together or a run parallel in close proximity for a part of their run-leng

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Stephen Usher
Joerg Schilling wrote: > I am not sure about the current state, but 2 years ago, Linux was only able to > run a few simple proramg in 32 bit mode because the drivers did not support > 32 bit ioctl interfaces. This made e.g. a 32 bit cdrecord on 64 bit Linux > impossible. I've never had a 32bit bi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS but how?

2007-09-11 Thread Stephen Usher
Oliver Schinagl wrote: > not to start a flamewar or the like, but linux can run 32bit bins, just not > nativly afaik, you need some sort of emu library. But since I use gentoo, and > pretty much everything is compiled from source anyway, I only have stupid > closed src bins that would need to wo

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread Stephen Usher
Alec Muffett wrote: >>> Mounts under /net are derived from the filesystems actually shared >>> from the servers; the automount daemon uses the MOUNT protocol to >>> determine this. If you're looking at a path not already seen, the >>> information will be fresh, but that's where the good news ends.

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-09 Thread Stephen Usher
Mike Gerdts wrote: > On 9/8/07, Richard Elling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Changing the topic slightly, the strategic question is: >> why are you providing disk space to students? > > For most programming and productivity (e.g. word processing, etc.) > people will likely be better suited by havi

Re: [zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-08 Thread Stephen Usher
Richard Elling wrote: > Stephen Usher wrote: >> I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading >> the comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: >> > > Welcome Steve, > I think you'll find that we rehash this ab

[zfs-discuss] An Academic Sysadmin's Lament for ZFS ?

2007-09-07 Thread Stephen Usher
I've just subscribed to this list after Alec's posting and reading the comments in the archive and I have a couple of comments: Mike Gerdts: While NFS4 holds some promise here, it is not a solution today. It won't be until all OS's that came out before 2008 are gone. That will be a while. Wel