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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux?
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 14:27:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3793675.rgGzu8h5Hr@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121231090704.2910cd82@khamul.example.com>

Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 09:07:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:42:45 +0100
> 
> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > compared with the hours of fiddling when I started using raid this
> > was pretty much straight forward - and yes, I know, destroying var
> > was not necessary, but at that point I just wanted to try it... as I
> > said, way too easy to throw away everything.
> 
> If it's any comfort,
> 
> rm -rf
> fdisk
> 
> are just as easy to type :-)

yeah, but with fdisk I have to make changes AND save them, with lots of 
warnings. 

destroy on the other hand... just destroys.... 

> I suppose the zfs tools fall in that category of "for root use ONLY"
> and need to be protected like the root account itself. Great power/great
> responsibility and all that

first thing I did, was changing permissions of zpios. ;)

-- 
#163933


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-31 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-28 17:52 [gentoo-user] experiences with zfsonlinux? Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-28 20:29 ` Stefan G. Weichinger
2012-12-28 23:21   ` Scott Ellis
2012-12-28 23:54     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-30 14:07     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-30 14:22       ` Michael Hampicke
2012-12-31  3:42         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-12-31  7:07           ` Alan McKinnon
2012-12-31 13:27             ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2012-12-31 16:02           ` Scott Ellis

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