Re: [zfs-discuss] Thumper Origins Q

2007-01-24 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Bryan Cantrill stated: < < > well, "Thumper" is actually a reference to Bambi I keep thinking of the classic AC/DC song when Fowler and thumpers are mentioned.. s/thunder/thumper/ < < You'd have to ask Fowler, but certainly when he coined it, "Bambi" was the < last thing on anyone's mind.

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs "no dataset available"

2007-07-13 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Kwang-Hyun Baek stated: < AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS: <0. c0d0 < /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],2/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0 < Specify disk (enter its number): 0 < selecting c0d0 < Controller working list found < [disk formatted, defect list found] < Warning:

Re: [zfs-discuss] mounting a zfs in ufs namespace

2007-07-19 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
David McDaniel stated: < An an application currently stores date in /opt/stuff. The application cant be changed to expect its data in another path. But it could benefit from some ZFS capabilities. < So, ideally I could create a pool and zfs, and then mount that at /opt/stuff. I know I could pr

Re: [zfs-discuss] Most stupid Ten reasons not to use ZFS

2006-07-06 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Darren J Moffat stated: < Robert Milkowski wrote: < >Hello zfs-discuss, < > < > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-June/msg03623.html < > < > Are they so afraid they have to write such bullshit!? < < The most annoying part to me is this bit: < < "2 . ZFS does not support the necess

Re: [zfs-discuss] Want to try ZFS, but "format" got message

2006-08-18 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Xinfeng Liu stated: < Hi, < < I'm trying ZFS on my laptop (Solaris 10 6/06 installed), I want to assign 2 slices for using ZFS. But when I type "format", I got message. You've probably got all the disk over to solaris and have things mounted. To play around with zfs on a laptop try usi

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS Snapshot management proposal idea (was: Properties of ZFS snapshots I'd like to see...)

2006-05-08 Thread Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland
Tim Foster stated: < Hey Constantin, < < On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 11:37 +0200, Constantin Gonzalez wrote: < > I took the liberty of renaming the thread to $SUBJECT because I think that what < > we really are looking for is an ability for ZFS to automatically manage snapshot < > after they have bee