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Announcing new direction of Open Source NexentaOS development: NexentaCP (Nexenta Core Platform). NexentaCP is Dapper/LTS-based core Operating System Platform distributed as a single-CD ISO, integrates Installer/ON/NWS/Debian and provides basis for Network-type installations via main or third-party APTs (NEW). First "unstable" b65-based ISO with ZFS/Boot-cap...

I''ve been doing a lot of reading about ZFS lately, and I''m quite enamored of its design goals. The reliability considerations are particularly attractive, and the snapshot scheme is more robust than anything I''m familiar with. I would very much like to keep my personal data in such a filesystem. Some time ago, I caught the launch of Drobo, a USB-connected box that does

Hi, I was playing around with NexentaCP and its zfs boot facility. I tried to figure out how what commands to run and I ran zpool history like this # zpool history 2007-06-20.10:19:46 zfs snapshot syspool/rootfs at mysnapshot 2007-06-20.10:20:03 zfs clone syspool/rootfs at mysnapshot syspool/myrootfs 2007-06-20.10:23:21 zfs set bootfs=s...

i''ve got a little zpool with a naughty raidz vdev that won''t take a replacement that as far as i can tell should be adequate. a history: this could well be some bizarro edge case, as the pool doesn''t have the cleanest lineage. initial creation happened on NexentaCP inside vmware in linux. i had given the virtual machine raw device access to 4 500gb drives and 1 ~200gb drive, with which I made my raidz vdev, knowing that i could replace the 200 with a 500gb when i got another. unfortunately, the device names that vmware was pointed to proved not to be quite st...