[zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-02 Thread Maury Markowitz
Now that the documentation section is expanding, I can make a not-so-ill-informed comment about zfs and the Mac OS. If I'm reading the documentation correctly, the news is unfortunately bad. The "problem" with Mac support is that the Mac stored all of its display-related information in the dire

Re: [zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-02 Thread Gregory Shaw
I don't disagree with the below, however, you can run your mac on UFS instead of HFS+. Since UFS hasn't been mac-ified, I'm wondering if the below is actually true for all filesystem types. On May 2, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Maury Markowitz wrote: Now that the documentation section is expanding,

Re: [zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-02 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:02:59PM -0700, Maury Markowitz wrote: > The "problem" with Mac support is that the Mac stored all of its > display-related information in the directory itself. As you've mentioned, performance considerations mean that extended attributes may not be the best solution for

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on FUSE/Linux [Google Summer of Code 2006]

2006-05-02 Thread Ricardo Correia
I've made an application draft for the project I'm proposing. This draft was made with the Gentoo Linux mentoring organization in mind, but of course, I'm much more interested in being assigned a mentor from ZFS/OpenSolaris itself :) You can read the draft in PDF format here: http://wizy.org/zf

[zfs-discuss] Best. Solaris Tees. Ever.

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan Cantrill
Sorry for the cross-posting, but I think the union of these lists will be interested in this. Joyent, a recent convert to Solaris (and ZFS in particular), has put together some fantastic T-shirts: http://flickr.com/photos/textdriveinc/139222094/ http://flickr.com/photos/textdriveinc/13922209

[zfs-discuss] ZFS porting help

2006-05-02 Thread Eric Schrock
Folks - Several people have vocalized interest in porting ZFS to operating systems other than solaris. While our 'mentoring' bandwidth may be small, I am hoping to create a common forum where people could share their experiences and ideas about how to effectively port ZFS and ease the ongoing mai

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS porting help

2006-05-02 Thread James C. McPherson
Eric Schrock wrote: Folks - Several people have vocalized interest in porting ZFS to operating systems other than solaris. While our 'mentoring' bandwidth may be small, I am hoping to create a common forum where people could share their experiences and ideas about how to effectively port ZFS an

Re: [zfs-discuss] XATTRs, ZAP and the Mac

2006-05-02 Thread Matthew Ahrens
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:10:09PM -0400, Maury Markowitz wrote: > >Unfortunately, embedding the extended attributes in the znode_phys_t (as > >you suggest) is not really practical. The extended attributes are > >full-fledged files > > I think that's the disconnect. WHY are they "full-fledged fil

[zfs-discuss] ant tool for migrate from ufs/svm to ZFS and pools

2006-05-02 Thread fran
Hi Exists (or It will exists) any metoth or tool for migrate a UFS/SVM filesystems with soft partitions to ZFS filesystems with pools? Any ideas for migrate a instaled base: Solaris 10 UFS/Solaris Volme Manager to Solaris 10 ZFS or only we have a backup-recovery option? Thanks This messa

Re: [zfs-discuss] ant tool for migrate from ufs/svm to ZFS and pools

2006-05-02 Thread James C. McPherson
fran wrote: Exists (or It will exists) any metoth or tool for migrate a UFS/SVM filesystems with soft partitions to ZFS filesystems with pools? Any ideas for migrate a instaled base: Solaris 10 UFS/Solaris Volme Manager to Solaris 10 ZFS or only we have a backup-recovery option? Hi Fran, no,