Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/21/2010 11:39 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you have an applicable SATA controller, running the ahci module with give you more speed. Only change one thing a time though.

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0: SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci7 atapci1: SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xac00-0xac0f

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:32:48AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/21/2010 11:39 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com mailto:amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Also if you have an applicable SATA controller, running the ahci module

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef-0xfbef7fff irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci7 atapci1:SiI

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:02:33AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 3:08 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 03:02:33AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI 3124 SATA300 controller

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc0f mem 0xfbeffc00-0xfbeffc7f,0xfbef-0xfbef7fff

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI 3124 SATA300 controller port 0xdc00-0xdc0f

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the criteria, but this is what I'm running: atapci0:SiI

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 4:03 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 3:30 AM, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: On 7/22/2010 2:59 AM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 22.07.2010 10:32, Dan Langille wrote: I'm not sure of the

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:03:05AM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dan Langille wrote: Well, I don't have anything to support hotplug. All my stuff is internal.

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:41 -0400 Dan Langille wrote: On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create -s GPT ad0 Let's see how much space we have. This output will be used to

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:41 -0400 Dan Langille wrote: On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create -s GPT ad0 Let's see how much space we

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Boris Samorodov
Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net writes: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:15:41 -0400 Dan Langille wrote: On 7/21/2010 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote (something close to this): First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create

Re: Changes to ipfw in 8.1

2010-07-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Spil Oss wrote: Hi Sergey, I'm dumbstruck! Switching 'ip' to 'ip4' in both the divert rules fixed my problem. Personally I think that should go into the UPDATING file as well. I wouldn't have found it if you hadn't told me! Many thanks, Spil. This

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 22/07/2010, at 12:35, Dan Langille wrote: Why use glabel? * So ZFS can find and use the correct HDD should the HDD device ever get renumbered for whatever reason. e.g. /dev/da0 becomes /dev/da6 when you move it to another controller. Why use partitions? * Primarily: two HDD of

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 22/07/2010, at 13:59, Adam Vande More wrote: To be clear, we are talking about data partitions, not the boot one. Difficult for me to explain concisely, but basically it has to do with seek time. A mis-aligned partition will almost always have an extra seek for each standard seek you'd

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Mather
On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:05 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I hope my terminology is correct I have a ZFS array which uses raw devices. I'd rather it use glabel and supply the GEOM devices to ZFS instead. In addition, I'll also partition the HDD to avoid using the entire HDD: leave a little

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
22.07.2010 06:05, Dan Langille wrote: Create a new partition within that scheme: gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0 Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what the first 33 LBA are used for. It's not for us to use here.

vuxml alert - mDNS - patch available in bug tracking system

2010-07-22 Thread Oliver Pinter
For a month ago every day become an portaudit alert, that the mdnsd is still vulnerable. The fix is available since ~1 month http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/147007 ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm chomping at the bit pretty hard to put this hardware to use,

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:38 -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: [...] I suppose I could boot via console and log it all... come to think of it, I'll go give that a try to get more comprehensive output Okay, here we go, output below my sig. panic: Built bad topology -- oh, dear. That's a new one for me.

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success today. A couple of things: 1. Reduce your RAM to 64G (seriously) 2. Don't use the H200 Dell RAID

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
Thank you to all the helpful discussion. It's been very helpful and educational. Based on the advice and suggestions, I'm going to adjust my original plan as follows. NOTE: glabel will not be used. First, create a new GUID Partition Table partition scheme on the HDD: gpart create -s GPT

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:36:11PM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success today. A couple of things: 1.

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading (logical processors bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I enable it. I believe FreeBSD ships with MAXCPU set to 32 by

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Pawel Tyll
I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly. I think I need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives). Then start the new zpool from scratch. You can, and you should (for educational purposes if not for fun :), unless you wish to change raidz1 to raidz2. Replace,

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Dan Langille
On 7/22/2010 9:22 PM, Pawel Tyll wrote: I do not think I can adjust the existing zpool on the fly. I think I need to copy everything elsewhere (i.e the 2 empty drives). Then start the new zpool from scratch. You can, and you should (for educational purposes if not for fun :), unless you

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Pawel Tyll
So... the smaller size won't mess things up... If by smaller size you mean smaller size of existing drives/partitions, then growing zpools by replacing smaller vdevs with larger ones is supported and works. What isn't supported is basically everything else: - you can't change number of raid

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/07/2010, at 24:56, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 22.07.2010 06:05, Dan Langille wrote: Create a new partition within that scheme: gpart add -b 34 -s SOMEVALUE -t freebsd-zfs ad0 Why '-b 34'? Randi pointed me to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table where it explains what