r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Freddie Cash
world gives the same error. And, running make -DNONE_CIPHER_ENABLED all install under /usr/src/secure/usr.bin/ssh/ also gives the same error. What am I missing? What's the magic incantation to add the None cipher to base ssh? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: r228152: anyone got the None cipher working with base OpenSSH?

2011-12-02 Thread Freddie Cash
in the commit message, which is why it wasn't working for me. :) I'm going to go with over-excitement due to too much coffee for this one. :) I'm testing out the make.conf snippet you posted now. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: 8.1 xl + dual-speed Netgear hub = yoyo

2011-10-24 Thread Freddie Cash
was pretty much universally dropped in favour of just listing the speeds it supported (10/100, 10/100/1000, etc). Maybe it's marketing mumbo jumbo, but it was pretty universal for the time. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: How to update like Debian

2011-09-29 Thread Freddie Cash
experience as you'll get. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: running newsyslog fiveminly

2011-07-31 Thread Freddie Cash
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Re: SATA 6g 4-port non-RAID controller ?

2011-07-25 Thread Freddie Cash
CDN, you really can't do much better. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-06-01 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:34 PM, TJ Varghese t...@tjvarghese.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Matt Thyer matt.th...@gmail.com wrote: What do people recommend for 8-STABLE as a PCIe SATA II HBA for someone

Re: PCIe SATA HBA for ZFS on -STABLE

2011-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
and newegg.ca. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Edho P Arief edhopr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Daniel Kalchev dan...@digsys.bg wrote: On 28.04.11 01:30, Freddie Cash wrote: gmirror doesn't touch the start of the disk, but saves it's metadata in the last sector of the disk

Re: correct way to setup gmirror on 7.4?

2011-04-27 Thread Freddie Cash
know if there's anything incorrect. https://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=22125 -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Missing serial port after enabling serial console in loader.conf

2011-04-12 Thread Freddie Cash
on the motherboard, it may even include support for keyboard/video/mouse redirection and serial-over-lan and all that other remote management stuff. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-11 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mikolaj Golub troc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote:  FC Once the deadlock patches above are MFC'd to -STABLE, I can do an  FC upgrade cycle and test them. Committed to STABLE. Updated src tree to r220537

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Mikolaj Golub troc...@freebsd.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 11:08:16 -0700 Freddie Cash wrote:  FC On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek p...@freebsd.org wrote:     I just committed a fix for a problem that might look like a deadlock

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-04 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 1:44 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek p...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:36:32PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: [Not sure which list is most appropriate since it's using HAST + ZFS on -RELEASE, -STABLE, and -CURRENT.  Feel free to trim the CC: on replies.] I'm

Re: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-04-01 Thread Freddie Cash
far, so good. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: zfs, nfs and zil

2011-03-28 Thread Freddie Cash
/ZIL) device. NFS is a very sync-heavy protocol, and having a super-fast ZIL sitting on a separate SSD will greatly improve things. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

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: Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-26 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek p...@freebsd.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 01:36:32PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: I've tried with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, 8-STABLE, 8-STABLE w/ZFSv28 patches, and 9-CURRENT (after the ZFSv28 commit).  Things work well until I start hastd

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
the settings into /etc/rc.conf like so: cloned_interfaces=lagg0 ifconfig_em0=up ifconfig_em1=up ifconfig_lagg0=laggproto round-robin laggport em0 laggport em1 inet 192.168.0.1/24 Change laggproto to suit your needs. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: SAS HBA LSI 9200-8e supported under 8.2?

2011-03-25 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Rumen Telbizov telbi...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Denny Schierz linuxm...@4lin.net wrote: So, how complicated is load balancing with two Gb Network cards? :-) Ok

Any success stories for HAST + ZFS?

2011-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
correct the issues. Thanks. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: About panic: bufwrite: buffer is not busy???

2011-03-08 Thread Freddie Cash
. A simple service hastd onestart will generate the panic. Is there any extra info that needed to help track this down? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: 8.2-RELEASE - gmirror and gpart issue. Metadata overlap?

2011-02-28 Thread Freddie Cash
is what's causing issues in this thread.) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: link aggregation - bundling 2 lagg interfaces together

2011-02-04 Thread Freddie Cash
bandwidth. But you will be extremely safe. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: Living on gmirror: need to reincarnate /etc/rc.early

2011-01-25 Thread Freddie Cash
^H^H do something else instead. Hrm, sounds like a need for an /etc/rc.d/modules, configured to run at a suitably early time in the rcorder. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: ZFS - hot spares : automatic or not?

2011-01-13 Thread Freddie Cash
checksum; action logger -p kern.warn 'ZFS: checksum mismatch, zpool=$pool path=$vdev_path offset=$zio_offset size=$zio_size'; }; So it's very (relatively) easy to configure devd to do this. We just need some scripts to plug into the action lines above. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: geom_label, fstab without device names swap partition?

2011-01-12 Thread Freddie Cash
? Use glabel(8) to label the device: # glabel label swap ada0s1b Then point to the label in /etc/fstab: /dev/label/swapswap sw ... -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: geom_label, fstab without device names swap partition?

2011-01-12 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Mark Saad nones...@longcount.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/1/12 Lev Serebryakov l...@serebryakov.spb.ru:  Now, with newfs -L name, geom_label and /dev/ufs/* it is possible to not use device names

Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?

2011-01-07 Thread Freddie Cash
tried it with the V4: line anywhere but at the end of the file. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Re: NFSv4 - how to set up at FreeBSD 8.1 ?

2011-01-04 Thread Freddie Cash
:/pool/backup/sites/m/ /mnt This tripped me up when I tried converting my NFSv3 setup at home to NFSv4. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: ARRRGG HELP !!

2010-12-28 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard jyaven...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 December 2010 08:56, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: Is that a typo, or the actual command you used?  You have an extra s in there.  Should be log and not logs.  However, I don't think that command

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: Kernel Panic

2010-12-28 Thread Freddie Cash
and log at the same time. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE: ARRRGG HELP !!

2010-12-27 Thread Freddie Cash
detach pool label/zil -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: ZFS backups: retrieving a few files?

2010-11-23 Thread Freddie Cash
files, some regular files, and the contents of all the files are mixed-up based on which source file (script or binary) was read first. We've had to resort to clearing out the backups directory when doing a Debian upgrade, in order to guarantee that we get a clean backup via rsync. -- Freddie Cash

Re: TTY task group scheduling

2010-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
something fundamental to the issue in question? Also, does this really need to be cross-posted to -current, -hackers, and -performance? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: booting from CF

2010-11-15 Thread Freddie Cash
cards, in CF-to-IDE and CF-to-SATA adapters. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: How to predict drive number change for 7.3-8.1 upgrade?

2010-09-17 Thread Freddie Cash
so, depending on whether you want to label the disk, the slice, the partition, or the filesystem: - glabe; - gpart labels - filesystem labels -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Where's the space? raidz2

2010-08-06 Thread Freddie Cash
or whether it's supported in FreeBSD's port of ZFS. But it will be available at some point. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Using GTP and glabel for ZFS arrays

2010-07-23 Thread Freddie Cash
based on several posts to the zfs-discuss mailing list where several people have done this on OpenSolaris. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-21 Thread Freddie Cash
have not used gpart, so don't know if you can label the disk or just partitions on the disk. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
mode reboot zpool import tank this forces ZFS to re-taste each drive to read the metadata zpool replace tank /dev/da3this should force it to use the correct drive Note: if you have / on ZFS, the above may not be doable. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
this from happening.) Of course, always have good backups. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
the controller for the new drive. It's possible the device number may change. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
- zfs send/recv data to new server - decommission old server Or: - take backups of server - destroy pool - configure new pool using new vdev layout - restore from backups -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Problems replacing failing drive in ZFS pool

2010-07-19 Thread Freddie Cash
it in the list of versions on the OSol website. You may be stuck until you get a drive with more sectors. :( -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: Serious zfs slowdown when mixed with another file system (ufs/msdosfs/etc.).

2010-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-08 Thread Freddie Cash
to make sure the man pages for those are correct as well. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
things have been for many, many, many years. Minor version upgrades (7.x to 7.y) rarely require a new kernel config file, although it's still a good idea to start with GENERIC for the duration of the upgrade. But major upgrades have pretty much always required it. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: 8.x grudges

2010-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
, which is necessary step between major version upgrades? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Setting up X Terminals: What about audio, Pulseaudio or NAS?

2010-06-10 Thread Freddie Cash
diskless, even on teacher, office, and admin desktops. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: Freebsd 8.0 kmem map too small

2010-05-05 Thread Freddie Cash
of filesytems via NFS and another couple via Samba. Expect to spend a week or two to tune ZFS, and to rebuild the pool at least once to find the optimal vdev layout. But once that's done, expect it to be solid. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Freddie Cash
. This will be 6 x 1 TB. zfs lists only the amount of storage available to be used, after all redundancy is taken into account. This will be 5 x 1 TB. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote: When looking at the size of a pool, this information can be got from

Re: Different sizes between zfs list and zpool list

2010-05-05 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.comwrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Tom Evans tevans...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: 8.6 The Configuration File out of date?

2010-04-19 Thread Freddie Cash
for COMPAT_43 entirely in 8.1 (I think). One does not need COMPAT_43 anymore, as the few remaining bits that are required were moved to COMPAT_43TTY. One can build a kernel without COMPAT_43 (been doing that for awhile now). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: 8.6 The Configuration File out of date?

2010-04-19 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Rob spamref...@yahoo.com wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: No, it's been moved to DEFAULTS, along with a handful of other things that should always be present in an i386 kernel (isa, npx, mem, io, etc). Is the DEFAULTS configuration automagically included

Re: IPFW and NAT woes on 8-STABLE

2010-04-05 Thread Freddie Cash
, or did I just get the code at a bad time? There's a long thread about this on the freebsd-ipfw list. See the archives for all the details. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Freddie Cash
into just a random collection of packages that kind of work together. IOW, don't go down the distro path. Keep the base OS separate from third-party apps. Keep the tools to deal with them separate. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
array (multiple small RAID6 arrays joined into a RAID0 stripe). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Michael Loftis mlof...@wgops.com wrote: --On Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:20 AM -0700 Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:47 AM, Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: I wrote a really long e-mail but realised I could ask

Re: Multi node storage, ZFS

2010-03-24 Thread Freddie Cash
/AoE. Or where exactly in the storage stack that works (below iSCSI/AoE??). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: raidz/2 stripe widths

2010-02-16 Thread Freddie Cash
to have multiple raidz vdevs. The overly-simplistic way to look at is to think of the entire raidz vdev as a single disk. Then it's an easy comparison: 1 disk is slower than 2 disks striped together. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: More zfs benchmarks

2010-02-15 Thread Freddie Cash
since adding the USB stick. On this box, running ktorrent 24/7 used to lock up the box after 3-5 days (can't even toggle numlock). This box uses a kmem_max of 1 GB, and an arc_max of 512 MB. With a 4 GB L2ARC. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Freddie Cash wrote: I just did this to 8 of the 1.5 TB Caviar Green disks, without ZFS complaining in any way. I did test it on a spare drive before doing it to the 7 live drives. And I did

Re: zpool vdev vs. glabel

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
, and so on. Personally, the greatest thing to ever happen to FreeBSD is the introduction of GEOM, and the addition of the glabel class. :) While ZFS does it's own disk labelling behind the scenes, using glabel just makes things easier. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Freddie Cash
, the support is the same. It's hard to find good, non-RAID, SATA controllers with solid FreeBSD support, and good throughput, with any kind of management/monitoring features. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: NFSv4: mount -t nsf4 not the same as mount_newnfs?

2010-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
/exports /etc/zfs/exports -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: one more load-cycle-count problem

2010-02-08 Thread Freddie Cash
. Load_Cycle_Count has stopped increasing (50,000 in 8 weeks on 1 drive). Re-silver throughput for these drives has jumped from 7 MBps to over 40 MBps (90% full pool, so it's slower than normal right now, which is why we're swapping these drive into the pool). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-22 Thread Freddie Cash
-insert the same disk or a different disk. Without doing that step, it's very hard to re-insert the same disk, or replace it with a new one, without rebooting. Took me a couple of reboots and drive replacements before I figured that one out. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: device.hints isn't setting what I want

2010-01-22 Thread Freddie Cash
/loader.conf for this, as nothing in the build/update process touches it, and it keeps all boot/kernel options in one file. And, it overrides any settings in device.hints. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Pack of CAM improvements

2010-01-22 Thread Freddie Cash
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net wrote: On 01/22/10 11:48, Freddie Cash wrote: In my testing of pulling drives at random (using a 3Ware 9550SXU or 9650SE controller), you have to zpool offlinepool device while the drive is unplugged, before you can re

Re: ZFS on top of GELI

2010-01-11 Thread Freddie Cash
implemented in OpenSolaris, do a search for slog removal. It's in a much newer zpool version than 13, though. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe

Re: Question about imaging / migrating freebsd

2010-01-08 Thread Freddie Cash
that as the source for imaging new harddrives. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer r...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD.  Any comments on their quality

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
2009/11/18 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de: On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:29:06 -0800 Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote about Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC Any recommendations on other SAS/SATA controllers to look at (just not FC anything with MegaRAID in the name)? I

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
2009/11/18 Gerrit Kühn ger...@pmp.uni-hannover.de: On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:56:14 -0800 Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote about Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters: FC I installed a Supermicro AOC-USASLP-L8i card here some days ago. FC Should be even cheaper than the ones you

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
. Rackable (who uses Tyan mainboards) might have better luck.  :-) Ah, in that case, it's not a solution for us. We use Tyan motherboards for pretty much everything, and have never had any luck with any kind of riser card, whether it be in a standard PCI slot or a PCI-X slot. -- Freddie Cash

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-18 Thread Freddie Cash
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Brian Whalen br...@brianwhalen.net wrote: Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Rink Springer r...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 08:38:21PM -0800, Freddie Cash wrote: I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe

Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Freddie Cash
PCIe Promise SuperTrak EX16350 16-port SATA PCIe Promise SuperTrak EX16300 16-port SATA PCI-X Promise SuperTrak EX16650 16-port SAS/SATA PCIe Any recommendations on other SAS/SATA controllers to look at (just not anything with MegaRAID in the name)? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: Support for SAS/SATA non-RAID adapters

2009-11-17 Thread Freddie Cash
that buried in the docs somewhere? I've also found a couple of Areca cards (PCI-X, non-RAID/PCIe RAID), and have heard good things about Areca support in FreeBSD. Any comments on their quality/performance/reliability? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: KVM tips for bsd as guest?

2009-11-12 Thread Freddie Cash
am looking for a general how-to if there is one out there( tried searching didn't find it). There's no real How-To needed. Just configure the VM, and boot. This is the first time I've heard of issues with installing FreeBSD into KVM-managed VMs. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: FreeBSD Status Reports April - September, 2009

2009-10-13 Thread Freddie Cash
as experimental in 7.x and only remove that warning in 8.x. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: zfs won't automount

2009-09-03 Thread Freddie Cash
get all | grep mountpoint. When you zfs set the mountpoint, the No need for the grep command, just zfs get mountpoint is enough. That will show just the mounpoint property for all the filesystems, snapshots, and volumes. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-02 Thread Freddie Cash
what happens. ;) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-01 Thread Freddie Cash
. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: zfs on gmirror slice

2009-09-01 Thread Freddie Cash
to and use s1 on both drives for the gmirror RAID1; and use s2 on both drives for a ZFS RAID1. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: ZFS - thanks

2009-07-11 Thread Freddie Cash
to never use more than 8 or 9 drives in any single vdev. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr

Re: ZFS: drive replacement performance

2009-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
- - 15 62 1022K 80.1K - - - - - - - That definitely doesn't look right. It should be showing the device name there in the replacing section. What's the exact zpool replace command that you used? -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com

Re: ZFS: drive replacement performance

2009-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Mahlon E. Smith mah...@martini.nu wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009, Freddie Cash wrote: This is why we've started using glabel(8) to label our drives, and then add the labels to the pool: # zpool create store raidz1 label/disk01 label/disk02 label/disk03

Re: ZFS and df weirdness

2009-07-04 Thread Freddie Cash
? Reserved space is not listed in the general pool. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC

2009-06-19 Thread Freddie Cash
just the if_rl module. One could probably also write a hints line in /boot/loader.conf to tell the vr driver to ignore that specific PCI slot or whatnot, although I've never actually done that. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: ZFS performance on 7.2-release/amd64 low compared to UFS2 + SoftUpdates

2009-06-18 Thread Freddie Cash
desktop), it's worked well. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ 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

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-15 Thread Freddie Cash
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:47 AM, George Hartzell hartz...@alerce.comwrote: Freddie Cash writes: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dan Naumov dan.nau...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to have an extra pair (or a dozen) of eyes look this configuration over before I commit

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
-on-root facilities, I'd look into getting a couple of CompactFlash or USB sticks to use for the gmirror for / and /usr (put the rest on ZFS). Then you can dedicate the entirety of all 5 drives to ZFS. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable

Re: Does this disk/filesystem layout look sane to you?

2009-06-14 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Emil Mikulic emiku...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:16:52PM -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: I don't know for sure if it's the same on FreeBSD, but on Solaris, ZFS will disable the onboard disk cache if the vdevs are not whole disks. pjd@ has

Re: ZFS on top of GELI / Intel Atom 330 system

2009-05-31 Thread Freddie Cash
. That's what we do as well, but with /usr/local on ZFS, leaving just / and /usr on UFS. -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail

A very big Thank You for the inclusion of ZFS

2009-05-26 Thread Freddie Cash
-L 64 -r 4k -s 40g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 8 -+p 70 -C (350 MBytes/sec writes) iozone -M -e -+u -T -t 128 -r 128k -s 4g -i 0 -i 1 -i 2 -i 8 -+p 70 -C (400 MBytes/sec write) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ZFS MFC heads up

2009-05-21 Thread Freddie Cash
want to list with zfs list. By default, it only shows filesystems. You even have to use -t if you want to list volumes. Reading up on the Solaris docs for ZFS is quite enlightening. :) -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: Keeping Updated

2009-05-06 Thread Freddie Cash
. If the boot using /boot/newkernel fails, a simple reboot will bring it back up with /boot/kernel (the old, working kernel). -- Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable

Re: current zfs tuning in RELENG_7 (AMD64) suggestions ?

2009-05-02 Thread Freddie Cash
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Alan Cox alan.l@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Freddie Cash fjwc...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Louis Kowolowski lou...@cryptomonkeys.org wrote: On May 1, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Pete French wrote: ... The tuning isn't

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