Backup tool fot ZFS with all classic dump(8) fetatures -- what should I use? (or is here any way to make dump -L works well on large FFS2+SU?)

2011-03-28 Thread Lev Serebryakov
Hello, Freebsd-stable. Now I'm backing up my HOME filesystem with dump(8). It works perfectly for 80GiB FS with many features: snapshot for consistency, levels, nodump flag (my users use it a lot!), ability to extract only one removed file from backup without restoring full FS, simple sctipy

mountd stuck

2011-03-28 Thread Daniel Braniss
I am runing mountd with -e (experimental :-) this is happening too often lately, where mountd just stops responding mountd 11762 [dp-dp_config_rwlock] 8.93r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 1320k any help/clues? thanks, danny ___

Long «Suspend time» when reading large files from gjournal partions.

2011-03-28 Thread Eugene V. Boontseff
Hello, freebsd-geom. On FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE long periods of «Suspend time» have been detected - tens of seconds - while reading large files from gjournal partition: For example: root@mail [/var/tmp]# du -h /var/tmp/access.log 8.3G /var/tmp/access.log root@mail[/var/tmp]# dd

Re: nsswitch problems

2011-03-28 Thread George Mamalakis
On 24/03/2011 16:28, George Mamalakis wrote: Hello everybody, In short: nsswitch seems not to honor (fully) the criteria and actions of nsswitch.conf. A detailed analysis of my problem can be found on this thread (it's on freebsd forums, and it hasn't been answered yet):

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Pete French
It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process. I am not sure I got the same crash as you but apparently the race is possible in g_gate on device creation. I got the following crash starting many hast providers simultaneously: This is very interestng to me - my

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Mikolaj Golub
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:47:22 +0100 Pete French wrote: It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process. I am not sure I got the same crash as you but apparently the race is possible in g_gate on device creation. I got the following crash starting many hast

zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using iscsi. I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 servers using nfs,

Re: Backup tool fot ZFS with all classic dump(8) fetatures -- what should I use? (or is here any way to make dump -L works well on large FFS2+SU?)

2011-03-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 28/03/2011 10:20 Lev Serebryakov said the following: Hello, Freebsd-stable. Now I'm backing up my HOME filesystem with dump(8). It works perfectly for 80GiB FS with many features: snapshot for consistency, levels, nodump flag (my users use it a lot!), ability to extract only one

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Felder
Hello, I'd be curious to know how much memory you have. Also, you mention both iSCSI and NFS in the post and also say that you are using ESX with NFS. Can you reconfirm that you're definitely using NFS and not iSCSI? This is a type of setup I've been investigating myself and I hope you

install: aibs.ko: No such file or directory

2011-03-28 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
I am updated on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 to 8.2-STABLE using cvsup.conf, as follows: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all #ports-all Then to build system use the following

Re: install: aibs.ko: No such file or directory

2011-03-28 Thread George Kontostanos
Don't use the -j flag when installing your kernel. make installkernel KERNCONF=VPN2 On 28 Μαρ 2011, at 3:04 μ.μ., Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: I am updated on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p2 to 8.2-STABLE using cvsup.conf, as follows: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default

Re: Backup tool fot ZFS with all classic dump(8) fetatures -- what should I use? (or is here any way to make dump -L works well on large FFS2+SU?)

2011-03-28 Thread J. Hellenthal
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:20, lev@ wrote: Hello, Freebsd-stable. Now I'm backing up my HOME filesystem with dump(8). It works perfectly for 80GiB FS with many features: snapshot for consistency, levels, nodump flag (my users use it a lot!), ability to extract only one removed file from backup

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Claus Guttesen kome...@gmail.com wrote: I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using iscsi. I'm

Re: SPD

2011-03-28 Thread Stephen Clark
On 03/26/2011 12:00 PM, VANHULLEBUS Yvan wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:53PM -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hi, Hi. If one has multiple entries in the SPD some representing more specific network addresses not to be encrypted and sent over an ipsec tunnel vs more general

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Claus Guttesen kome...@gmail.com (from Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:22:00 +0200): I've setup a server with FreeBSD 8.2 (prerelase) and patched zfs to ver. 28. The server has 11 disks each 2 TB in raidz2. The performance is very good and I've got approx. 117 MB/s on plain GB nics using iscsi.

Re: install: aibs.ko: No such file or directory

2011-03-28 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
Hi Geoge, without the option-j to make the error is exactly the same. Em 28/3/2011 10:21, George Kontostanos escreveu: Don't use the -j flag when installing your kernel. make installkernel KERNCONF=VPN2 On 28 Μαρ 2011, at 3:04 μ.μ., Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: I am updated on FreeBSD

Re: install: aibs.ko: No such file or directory

2011-03-28 Thread J. Hellenthal
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:25, mdonada@ wrote: Hi Geoge, without the option-j to make the error is exactly the same. You will have to re-build kernel. Start from scratch. -- Regards, J. Hellenthal (0x89D8547E) JJH48-ARIN ___

Re: nsswitch problems

2011-03-28 Thread George Mamalakis
On 28/03/2011 11:43, George Mamalakis wrote: On 24/03/2011 16:28, George Mamalakis wrote: Hello everybody, In short: nsswitch seems not to honor (fully) the criteria and actions of nsswitch.conf. A detailed analysis of my problem can be found on this thread (it's on freebsd forums, and it

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the nic down and up again

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
If your disk controller has a lot of cache on it, and a battery backup, then enabling the write cache and disabling the ZIL can be faster, without sacrifising consistency (the write cache on the controller acts like a ZIL).  There's several threads on the zfs-discuss mailing list where this

ZFS pool on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE broken?

2011-03-28 Thread Mark Morley
Hi there, I have a small backup server (8.2-STABLE). It boots from ufs and has a zfs pool for backups that consists of 8 drives configured as 4 mirrored devices, totally around 2.5 TB. Been working great, no issues, until the past few days when remote rsyncs to it have started to get very

Re: ZFS pool on FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE broken?

2011-03-28 Thread Scot Hetzel
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Mark Morley m...@islandnet.com wrote: Hi there, I have a small backup server (8.2-STABLE).  It boots from ufs and has a zfs pool for backups that consists of 8 drives configured as 4 mirrored devices, totally around 2.5 TB. Been working great, no issues,

GELI speed

2011-03-28 Thread Clayton Milos
Hi Pawel I'm running GELI encryption on a hardware RAID5 (8x1TB), formatted to 6.3T usable space using i386 FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE. Write speeds to the drive are just over 40MB/s which is not too bad but I would like to improve it as the drive gets 270MB/s without encryption. I've run the

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:50:29 +0200 Claus Guttesen kome...@gmail.com wrote: However, the better solution, and the one most recommended for those using NFS with ZFS, is to install a small, write-optimised, SLC-based SSD to the system as a separate log (SLOG/ZIL) device. NFS is a very

Problem using POSIX message queues

2011-03-28 Thread Derek Tattersall
While trying to develop an understanding of the use POSIX message queues, I found that issuing a mq_open (2) call, resulted in Bad system call: 12 error message. I have tried to run the tools/regression/mqueue tests, but they fail in mq_open with the bad system call error. In addition, the mq_open

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Mikolaj Golub troc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:52:08 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote:  FC hastd backtrace is here:  FC http://www.sd73.bc.ca/downloads/crash/hast-backtrace.png It is not a hastd crash, but a kernel crash triggered by hastd process.

Re: Problem using POSIX message queues

2011-03-28 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 01:19:38PM -0400, Derek Tattersall wrote: While trying to develop an understanding of the use POSIX message queues, I found that issuing a mq_open (2) call, resulted in Bad system call: 12 error message. I have tried to run the tools/regression/mqueue tests, but they

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Rick Macklem
I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the nic down and up again

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Claus Guttesen
I'm mounting the FreeBSD-server from a couple of vmware esxi 4.1 servers using nfs, but when there is alot of i/o the server becomes unresponsive, easily triggered by installing ie. ms-sql. The server itself is up but is not reachable from the network. When I take the nic down and up again

Best way to switch from Linux to BSD

2011-03-28 Thread Jason Hsu
I've been trying to switch from Linux to BSD for my everyday computing (email, word processing, spreadsheets, etc.), but I couldn't get things to work properly. I've been so spoiled by the quickness and user-friendliness of antiX/Swift Linux and Puppy Linux for so long. I have a backlog of