Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an ISCSI disk image instead (although that would make it impossible to resize once it's created right?) I see that the sparse disk image does use ~8 files in a single directory which does take.. a while.. to stat.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
running, 652 sleeping CPU: 3.6% user, 0.0% nice, 3.4% system, 0.6% interrupt, 92.5% idle Mem: 1401M Active, 578M Inact, 4143M Wired, 4904K Cache, 16M Buf, 1658M Free Swap: 4096M Total, 160M Used, 3936M Free, 3% Inuse although free does go down very low (~250MB) at times. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hammering.. It did have 4GB of RAM but that was fairly terrible, 8GB is a lot better though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: ZFS vs OSX Time Machine

2011-04-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
soak up a fair bit. It runs a very lightly loaded postgres as well. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

if_bridge and IPv6

2011-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a description.. Thanks :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Disable probing of bge1?

2011-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) + return (ENXIO); + sc = device_get_softc(dev); sc-bge_dev = dev; Does.. hint.bge.0.disabled=1 in the loader work? (I suspect not but am ever hopeful..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Port 80 closed?

2011-03-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: How to bind a static ether address to bridge?

2011-02-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are duplicated! The kernel have to drop half of them. So how can I bind a distinct MAC address to a bridge? Does bge0 have an address? It shouldn't. You can set the MAC address of the bridge with.. ifconfig bridge0 lladdr aa:bb:dd:ee:ff:gg -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: hold-on at 'Entropy harvesting' afer upgrading to 8.1

2011-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-seeding PRNG'. Any suggestion? Thanks and happy Lantern Festival. You should re-enable those, they help feed the entropy pool. You can seed it with a file by setting entropy_file in rc.conf to a file full of (hopefully) random junk. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process

2011-02-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on every disk for partitions it should only take a second or so (unless one of the drives is broken I suppose). I have seen BIOSen not boot reliably when external RAID cards are present.. Generally their quality is quite variable :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Removing all ZFS support from boot process

2011-02-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with it. Is there an update for the BIOS? Does this happen on other hardware? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: Xorg in swwrt

2011-02-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
memory or similar.. Look at the working set of the application you are starting. Another thing that is standing out is huge wired count. Yep, it's running ZFS :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Xorg in swwrt

2011-02-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel (II) RADEON(0): X context handle = 0x3 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] installed DRM signal handler [in swwrt] Does anyone else see this? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in X with the x11/numlockx port (I've never used it though). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: happy hacker lite 2 keyboard

2010-12-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in the loader. ie it needs to probe for USB devices and be able to parse the keyboard messages on behalf of the loader. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: 8.2-BETA1 sysinstall: No USB devices found

2010-12-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and then loading the kernel directly from FAT32 using the loader but I could never get it to see the FAT32 even though by my reading of the code it should work.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it should work so it's my current front runner.. http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=59735postcount=5 Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08/12/2010, at 24:49, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:00:58 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for one? I am looking to connect a LTO tape drive to a FreeBSD 7 or 8 box and I've only ever used Adaptec 19160 and similar cards and LVDS SCSI

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 08/12/2010, at 3:51, Mike Andrews wrote: On 12/7/2010 8:00 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for one? I am looking to connect a LTO tape drive to a FreeBSD 7 or 8 box and I've only ever used Adaptec 19160 and similar cards and LVDS SCSI. Our supplier has

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
interesting, although the LSI card is available from one of our usual wholesalers, I can't find a local reseller of the Intel one :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: Supported SAS controllers (single port)

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-adapters.html?osCsid=fda686b95b73fe275aaa7bec038e1dbc Cheaper to buy the LSI SAS 3442E-R :) Thanks for the pointer though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 14/09/2010, at 16:49, Daniel O'Connor wrote: So, you either have to disable one of them or upgrade to a more recent version. The version you need is r206183. The latest stable/8 would do, obviously. I'll try updating to stable/8 - I've been meaning to anyway. Just to find the spare

Re: SuperMicro i7 (UP) - very slow performance

2010-09-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
interrupt. I could not get cpufreq to show a lower frequency when I tried overheating a CPU even though the performance dropped. It would be really nice if there was some notification of CPU throttling :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, obviously. I'll try updating to stable/8 - I've been meaning to anyway. Just to find the spare time to do it :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/sys sudo pciconf -r pci0:0:24:3 0x180 00f003e2 Which is.. 00f003e2 0011 1110 0010 |||||||| | 31 27 23 19 15 11 73 0 Be careful and cautious. Thanks, I'll let you know how I go! -- Daniel

Enabling MCA causes system hangs

2010-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MIDGET amd64 The motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon II X2 240 CPU 4Gb of RAM. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: kernel MCA messages

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: MCA: Address 0x7ff6b0 FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE #1: Sun Aug 22 23:16:43 It's generated by machine check support, see.. /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/mca.c /usr/src/sys/amd64/amd64/mca.c Some info here.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_check_architecture No man page for it though. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
compressed(!) Unfortunately I have no idea how to go about it :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
they wouldn't be available to people who do binary installs, hence the usefulness of bug reports would go down. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 06/08/2010, at 17:45, Oliver Fromme wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 06/08/2010, at 16:59, Oliver Fromme wrote: Yeah, I don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it will break :) The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it tells gdb where

Re: Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
don't think it's hard to move them, however I'm worried what it will break :) The only thing I can see that would have to change would be kgdb so it tells gdb where to find the symbols. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Kernel symbol file alternate location

2010-08-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to grow - the actual kernel is relatively small so even a 256Mb / could hold several, but with the symbol files it is not possible. I don't have patches to do this though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-s 1T /tmp/fake-disk1 mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /tmp/fake-disk1 etc.. Although you'd want to determine the exact size of your real disks from geom and use that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to use here. If you don't specify -b it will DTRT - that's how I did it. You can also specify the size (and start) in human units (Gb etc). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
unaligned to this every read and write will involve at least one more sector than it would otherwise and that hurts performance. The disks which don't expose it have a jumper which offsets all accesses to Windows XP's performance doesn't take a dive but I'm not sure if that helps FreeBSD. -- Daniel

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
there) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
reference them using GPT UUIDs. I also put 4Gb partitions on each one which I glued together using gmirror and used it for swap. I learnt this from many tales of woe :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

MIMEDefang not starting on reboot

2010-07-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: MIMEDefang not starting on reboot

2010-07-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. The optional wait appears to be a Linux thing, however rc.d scripts on FreeBSD [should] always wait for their daemons to exit, otherwise restart will try and start it before it has exited. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that my friend tried it on real hardware and said that after he rebooted it appeared(!) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the footshooting flag, it *still* can write to the label. That is, unless you mount and unmount the filesystem, after which is again, sort of 'locked' against writing. All highly confusing. :) Hmm odd, the sysctl had no effect here.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/07/2010, at 24:52, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: On 2010-07-04, Daniel O'Connor wrote: bsdlabel: Class not found This is because GEOM_BSD - GEOM_PART_BSD change. bsdlabel(8) needs read-write access to the device. If it can't get that, it tries an alternative GEOM based method only

Re: GEOM/bsdlabel regression in 8.x?

2010-07-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05/07/2010, at 9:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 05/07/2010, at 24:52, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: On 2010-07-04, Daniel O'Connor wrote: bsdlabel: Class not found This is because GEOM_BSD - GEOM_PART_BSD change. bsdlabel(8) needs read-write access to the device. If it can't get

Re: .zfs directory broken on an FS

2010-05-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 13/05/2010, at 6:53, Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 12.05.2010 um 02:09 schrieb Daniel O'Connor: [cain 9:37] ~ ls -la /usr/local/Genesis/archive/.zfs ls: snapshot: Bad file descriptor total 0 This appears to be a long standing issue with no solution. I used to get this a lot during daily

.zfs directory broken on an FS

2010-05-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is.. FreeBSD cain.gsoft.com.au 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0 r206332: Wed Apr 7 11:01:52 CST 2010 r...@cain3.gsoft.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: ZFS (zpool) doesn't detect failed drive

2010-05-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
using the glabel devices instead to circumvent any future problems associated with device numbering. If you partitioned them with GPT then you can use GPT IDs :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
wouldn't use it for a remote system without redundancy but for a home setup a very lightly used flash device seems like an obvious (and cost effective) choice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? That board already has 6 SATA slots - depends how many disks you want to use of course. (5 HDs + 1 DVD drive?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, Athlon II X2 240 2.8GHz, 4Gb DDR2 RAM and 5 1Tb WD drives in an Antec NineHundred case. It boots of a CF card too, but has onboard video and only a 400W PSU (which is probably overkill, steady state draw was ~110W) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for the boot, and 1 optical drive (so 8 SATA ports). That is f**king expensive for a home setup :) I priced a decent ZFS PC for a small business and it was AUD$2500 including the disks (5x750Gb), case, PSU etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: After creating three different system configurations (Athena, Supermicro, and HP), my configuration of choice is this Supermicro setup:     1. Samsung SATA CD/DVD Burner $20 (+ $8 shipping)     2

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as supported - DDR3 board though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
any issues since. As the original timeout was 8 seconds I am pretty confident it treats 63 as special otherwise the problem would still be happening for me. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, it doesn't reflash the firmware. That said I have heard reports of it bricking a drive so I would test it on one drive first (not that I did, I heard the bricking reports later..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and flash the last one.. very stupid) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
seconds). I took this as a special value that disabled it entirely (no idea why they didn't use 0 or 255..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 unable to boot...

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. It is pretty odd, I've installed FreeBSD on a laptop with 60Gb partitions and FreeBSD was last yet it worked fine.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:56:46PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
with the onboard SATA ports (AHCI compliant), however there are only 6 ports on the board I picked. Hopefully port multipliers will be fully working when I need some more disks ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, I don't know if that is a problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: ionice in FreeBSD?

2010-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. ¿Is there some ionice(1) equivalent in FreeBSD? There is no IO scheduler in FreeBSD outside of some experimental patches at http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/stable/2009-01/msg00316.html (I have no idea of their status) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Ian Smith wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ken Smith wrote: No, no plans afoot for memsticks for the balance of the 7.X releases. The sysinstall support for installing from a USB based disk didn't get MFCed to stable/7

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
optional - syslinux ignores the directive if the file doesn't exist) I hope you find it useful and it gets in the tree :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
a FAT32 USB stick (more useful to me than the UFS image one). This is the script I use.. http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/makeusb.sh Here be dragons, no warranty, etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: 7.3-BETA1 Available... [memstick.img?]

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and DVD) so my plan all along had been to phase in the memstick image for stable/8 and at the same time drop CDs-with-packages. FWIW the method I used works on 7.x because sysinstall understands how to read the install off a DOS device :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
when debugging. Since the debugging either happens after the fact (analysing a core) or remotely (and the remote system would have /usr mounted) I don't see that they need to go into /boot. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: [PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as it is only a very minor code increase which makes the headless server much, much more useful. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: [PATCH] VirtualBox headless VNC support by LibVNCServer

2010-01-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Daisuke Aoyama wrote: I updated for 3.1.2_1 and fixed bug of initial pixel format. Before building, install ports/net/libvncserver. I recommend you backup virtualbox-ose directory before doing. Uncheck QT4, X11, NLS by make config before extracting. Howto apply

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in mine. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: 8.0-RELEASE - -STABLE and size of /

2010-01-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(I would have thought anyway). If they went into /usr then /boot could remain slim. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
tonight.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C signature.asc

Re: immense delayed write to file system (ZFS and UFS2), performance issues

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
only had 66.. Very odd! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: [Bulk] Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Does apcupsd change user? If so, does that user have permissions to access the USB device nodes? You might want to try sysutils/nut, that should work with an APC USB UPS. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Reordering network cards

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
however rename them.. eg.. ifconfig em1 name em99 ifconfig em2 name em1 ifconfig em99 name em2 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
an email to the port's maintainer... Does it use libusb? If so, then it should Just Work assuming that permissions are correct (note the nodes are /dev/usb/X.Y.Z now) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

2010-01-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Frank wrote: On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does it use libusb? If so, then it should Just Work assuming that permissions are correct (note the nodes are /dev/usb/X.Y.Z now) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/dvd1/7.2-STABLE to the USB stick. Now you should be able to boot off the stick and install from a DOS device (ie the memory stick). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact Postmaster postmas...@gsoft.com.au. For more information

Re: How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: How to make release for *memstick.img

2010-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Daniel O'Connor wrote: [..] An attachment named makeusb.sh was removed from this document as it constituted a security hazard. If you

Re: update to 8.0-RELEASE -- partition gone

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the ID with.. line=`dumpfs 2 /dev/null $1 | head | grep superblock\ location` # dumpfs doesn't print leading 0s echo $line | sed -nEe 's/superblock location.*id.*\[ (.*)(.*)\ ]/printf %0x $((0x\1 32 | 0x\2))/p' (in an sh like shell) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: USB GPS mouse in Wine

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to it under Wine. I am not really sure what you mean by a GPS mouse.. You mean a USB GPS receiver? I found that this program worked - http://www.visualgps.net/VisualGPS/Download/Download.html Can you get it to talk to your device? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: USB GPS mouse in Wine

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bluetooth. Yes, it is rather annoying :( That said, FreeBSD does support a very large subset of them. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: FreeBSD 8 GPT install, how?

2009-12-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on teaching sysinstall about gpart. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: how to get the UFSID of a mounted filesystem ?

2009-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.*\[ (.*) (.*)\ ]/printf %0x $((0x\1 32 | 0x\2))/p'` I use this in a script to determine the ID so I can modify fstab after the install has finished. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bug with handling the long gptid names. Maybe you try to detach ZFSfrom the devices, give everything a short gpt label and try to use that. I'd really prefer to use UUID which _does_ exist, ZFS just doesn't like it.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it for swap. Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps that is because glabel has grabbed that node. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Maybe this happens for the other gpt labels too? Hmm, but I have gptid ones corresponding to my ZFS partitions.. It seems like a bug. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 21 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 14:27, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: Actually that is an interesting point, the swap partitions don't have an entry in /dev/gptid, although perhaps

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote:  operator    0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc Have you tried naming the GPT partitions and using /dev/gpt/* ? Nope, how would I do that? I'd be surprised if it worked TBH.. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: operator0, 164 Oct 21 15:34 /dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc Have you tried naming the GPT

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: There's no need to detach anything. I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes. How can I show what partition has what UUID? gpart list and gpart show do not say.. I suspect if I booted verbose glabel would say but that is a bit annoying

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 19 Nov 2009, Marius Nünnerich wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 23:15, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote:   There's no need to detach anything. I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes. How can I show what partition

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: There's no need to detach anything. I'll try it when I get home and see how it goes. Unfortunately I get.. [midget 11:20] ~ sudo zpool replace tank ad4p2 gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07-00241dd192cc cannot use '/dev/gptid/6866d8b0-a8ac-11de-8e07

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 28.10.2009 um 01:41 schrieb Daniel O'Connor: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, jfar...@goldsword.com wrote: Check the archives for stable@ and f...@. I believe that there was a thread not that long ago detailing exactly how to do that. IIRC, while it took a bit of work

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Daniel O'Connor wrote: Stefan Bethke wrote: Am 28.10.2009 um 01:41 schrieb Daniel O'Connor: On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, jfar...@goldsword.com wrote: Check the archives for stable@ and f...@. I believe that there was a thread not that long ago detailing exactly how to do that. IIRC, while

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-11-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
because I used GPT as a container and it has a UUID for each partition made. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/dump on them (4Gb on each - overkill but kept them all the same size). Unfortunately it appears ZFS doesn't search for GPT partitions so if you have them and swap the drives around you need to fix it up manually. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: whats best pracfive for ZFS on a whole disc these days ?

2009-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have also successfully imported the pool on OpenSolaris and back again on FreeBSD. Damn, if I'd realised I'd have done that :) Do you know if it's possible to change? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

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