Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Tribble
On 4/28/07, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:02:47PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > In practical terms, backing up much over a terabyte > in a single chunk isn't ideal. What I would like to see > here is more flexibility from something like Legato > in terms

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Erblichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jorg, > > Do you really think that ANY FS actually needs to support > more FS objects? If that would be an issue, why not create > more FSs? > > A multi-TB FS SHOULD support 100MB+/GB size FS objects, which > IMO is the more commo

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Erblichs
Jorg, Do you really think that ANY FS actually needs to support more FS objects? If that would be an issue, why not create more FSs? A multi-TB FS SHOULD support 100MB+/GB size FS objects, which IMO is the more common use. I have seen this alot in video

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Selim Daoud
the Sun's equivalent is SAMFS and especially the latest version (4.6) which can be entirely used for backup/restore/archive SAMFS will be opensource very soon s. On 4/28/07, Rayson Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/28/07, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what you *really* want i

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Rayson Ho
On 4/28/07, Brian Hechinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what you *really* want is TSM. I wonder if IBM would ever consider supporting ZFS. Just wondering, does Sun/STK have something similar to TSM?? Rayson -brian -- "Perl can be fast and elegant as much as J2EE can be fast and elegant

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Brian Hechinger
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:02:47PM +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: > > In practical terms, backing up much over a terabyte > in a single chunk isn't ideal. What I would like to see > here is more flexibility from something like Legato > in terms of defining schedules that would allow us to > back this

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Peter Tribble
On 4/28/07, Yaniv Aknin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Following my previous post across several mailing lists regarding multi-tera volumes with small files on them, I'd be glad if people could share real life numbers on large filesystems and their experience with them. I'm slowly coming to a real

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Claus Guttesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm currently using 4 TB partitions with vxfs. When hosted on FreeBSD > > > I was limited to 2 TB but using UFS2/FreeBSD was impractical for > > > several reasons. With vxfs 4 TB is a practical limit, when files are > > > > Could you please give so

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
> I'm currently using 4 TB partitions with vxfs. When hosted on FreeBSD > I was limited to 2 TB but using UFS2/FreeBSD was impractical for > several reasons. With vxfs 4 TB is a practical limit, when files are Could you please give some hints on these reasons? I only know that FreeBSDs UFS2 is no

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Claus Guttesen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently using 4 TB partitions with vxfs. When hosted on FreeBSD > I was limited to 2 TB but using UFS2/FreeBSD was impractical for > several reasons. With vxfs 4 TB is a practical limit, when files are Could you please give some hints on these r

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
Following my previous post across several mailing lists regarding multi-tera volumes with small files on them, I'd be glad if people could share real life numbers on large filesystems and their experience with them. I'm slowly coming to a realization that regardless of theoretical filesystem ca

Re: [zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Yaniv Aknin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Following my previous post across several mailing lists regarding multi-tera > volumes with small files on them, I'd be glad if people could share real life > numbers on large filesystems and their experience with them. I'm slowly > coming to a realizati

[zfs-discuss] Very Large Filesystems

2007-04-28 Thread Yaniv Aknin
Following my previous post across several mailing lists regarding multi-tera volumes with small files on them, I'd be glad if people could share real life numbers on large filesystems and their experience with them. I'm slowly coming to a realization that regardless of theoretical filesystem cap