[OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, We are trying to implement a fileserver using OmniOS. The customer has been on Linux until now, but ZFS seems VERY tempting. The first problem we ran into is that OmniOS seems to limit the number of groups per user to 16 by default. Setting ngroups_max to 128 in /etc/system seemd to take

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: Actually, just set ngroups_max to 1024 in /etc/system, there is an outside chance of a user having 128 groups in some AD environments. 1024 seems less likely. so you suggest that setting ngroups_max to 128 is bad ? while setting it to 1024 would be good ? in our setup

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] group membership trouble (ngroups_max)

2013-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Ira Cooper wrote: If it works, use it. I'm merely stating from experience in situations with even more groups, the max is 1024, and people may wish to be aware of it / use it. I personally use it just so I don't have to worry about increasing it. But that's me. in testing it worked,

[OmniOS-discuss] could you please merge the setgroups fix

2013-06-22 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are in the process of deploying omnios for a large customer with a complex group setup ... only to find that support for more than 16 groups per user was broken ... this got fixed upstream in the mean time ... could you please merge the fix ?

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] performance penalty of a slow mirror

2013-08-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, Today Michael Mounteney wrote: Hello, as my current OmniOS server doesn't have removable disks, I've added an external USB2 HDD as a mirror, so that in the event of fire or holiday, the external disk can be taken away as a backup. How does OmniOS deal with a very slow mirror ?

[OmniOS-discuss] how to create a stable zone

2013-09-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Just experimented for the first time with zones on my omnios box ... workes fine ... great stuff ... except that I now realize that zoneadm -z xxx install by default it seems to install bloody, how do I get a zone installed with stable ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] how to create a stable zone

2013-09-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Just experimented for the first time with zones on my omnios box ... workes fine ... great stuff ... except that I now realize that zoneadm -z xxx install by default it seems to install

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] samba with AD on omnios

2013-09-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Chavdar, Yesterday Chavdar Ivanov wrote: Any particular reason not to use the default smb/server under OmniOS? My Solaris/OmniOS/OpenIndiana hosts all have joined our domain without many problems: I am aware of the differences in semantics as far as samba and Solaris smb/server is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] samba with AD on omnios

2013-09-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Thomas, Today Thomas Werschlein wrote: Hi Tobi On 16.09.2013, at 22:56, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I am trying to use samba/winbind to hook up our omnios box to an AD server. After some fiddleling, I managed to compile samba + openldap linked to the system krb5 libraries

[OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move to have some standards as to where things should go on the system ... good old /opt/X /etc/opt/X /var/opt/X come to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

2013-09-26 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Eric, Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Folks, I have started to create packages for omnios and I am a bit at a loss as to packaging 'standards' ... With omnios getting more popular, I think it would be a good move

[OmniOS-discuss] nfs problems linux (client) illumos (server)

2013-10-14 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, I have this nfs client (ubunty 3.5 kernel) which seems to have issues talking to our omnios server. In the example below the client does not seem to get an answer to his ACCESS3 call from 08:19:48.43 and starts retransmitting. It does not seem as if packets got lost ... Does this

[OmniOS-discuss] omnios host goes suddenly silent on the network

2013-10-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, I am runnning omnios OmniOS 5.11 omnios-8d266aa 2013.05.04 on a box where we server zfs storage space and also run a few kvm hosts. Over the last few days, omnios has intermittently become 'mute' on its network interface. Not answering to tcp or icmp requests. Connecting via the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] omnios host goes suddenly silent on the network

2013-10-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: oot@fugu:~# dladm show-link LINKCLASS MTUSTATEBRIDGE OVER igb0phys 1500 up -- -- igb1phys 1500 up -- -- igb2

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] omnios host goes suddenly silent on the network

2013-10-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: the troubling bit is that during the outage, the kvm hosts on akami0 and nigiri0 were able to talk to the physical network just fine, but they were not able to talk to fugu0 ... and this is all

[OmniOS-discuss] hw recomendation for JBOD box

2013-10-30 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are looking at buying a system consisting of a 1U server and 1 or more 3U JBOD boxes to run and OmniOS ZFS server. Any HW recommendations for the JBOD box, Controller, Disks, what are you using ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] hw recomendation for JBOD box

2013-10-30 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:05:11 +0100 (CET) Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/4u/6047/ssg-6047r-e1r36l.cfm filled with UltraStar 7k3000 and a ZeusRam 8GB as Zil and 256 GB ram Nice rick;-) nice

[OmniOS-discuss] SuperStorage Server 6047R-E1R36L SAS Question

2013-11-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are looking at purchasing a new box. According to https://github.com/joyent/manufacturing/blob/master/parts-database.ods it seems that Joyent is using Supermicro SuperStorage Server 6047R-E1R36L with 7K3000 (and maybe soon 7K4000) disks.

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] SuperStorage Server 6047R-E1R36L SAS Question

2013-11-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Saso, Today Saso Kiselkov wrote: On 11/11/13, 2:05 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: We are looking at purchasing a new box. According to https://github.com/joyent/manufacturing/blob/master/parts-database.ods it seems that Joyent is using Supermicro SuperStorage Server 6047R-E1R36L

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] SuperStorage Server 6047R-E1R36L SAS Question

2013-11-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Keith, Today Keith Wesolowski wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 03:05:00PM +0100, Tobias Oetiker wrote: We are looking at purchasing a new box. According to https://github.com/joyent/manufacturing/blob/master/parts-database.ods it seems that Joyent is using Supermicro SuperStorage

[OmniOS-discuss] userland woes

2013-12-07 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Following the latest instructions from your webpage, we tried this: pkg list incorporation/jeos/omnios-userland /dev/null 21 || pkg install incorporation/jeos/omnios-userland@11,5.11-0.151006 now, if we run # pkg update -nv we get Creating Plan / pkg update: No solution was found to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] userland woes

2013-12-09 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Eric, Today Eric Sproul wrote: On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Following the latest instructions from your webpage, we tried this: pkg list incorporation/jeos/omnios-userland /dev/null 21 || pkg install incorporation/jeos/omnios-userland

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] strange io-pattern

2013-12-13 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Paul, Today Paul Jochum wrote: Hi Tobias:     Sorry, I don't know why you are having these strang io-patterns, but I was wondering if you could share how you record and display this info? I created a little plugin for collectd to interface with iostat. I guess having one for vfsstat

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] strange io-pattern

2013-12-13 Thread Tobias Oetiker
, Henk On 13/12/2013 14:13, Tobias Oetiker wrote: I created a little plugin for collectd to interface with iostat. I guess having one for vfsstat and arcstat along the same lines would give a better picture as to what users actually experience but this one gives some impression as to what

[OmniOS-discuss] background snapshot destruction impact

2013-12-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I am running omnios r151008 on a recent box with 3gig SAS disks arranged in a raidz2 pool. I have this 7TB filesystem where I have my zimbra server store its backups. The backup-sets are highly redundant, so for a time I had deduplication turned on to great effect, but as the size of the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] background snapshot destruction impact

2013-12-23 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Richard, Yesterday Richard Elling wrote: On Dec 22, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Hi Richard, Yesterday Richard Elling wrote: c) shouldn't the smarter write throttle change https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit

[OmniOS-discuss] igb0 'hangs'

2014-01-19 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I just had an odd thing happening to my r151008 server. It suddenly stopped communicating over its igb0 interface ... Upon further investigation I found: a) several KVM guests talking over the same physical interface were still happily chatting b) logging into the guests and trying to reach

[OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

2014-01-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi, we are serving ISCSI volumes from our omnios box ... in the log on the client I keep seeing this pattern every few hours. any idea what could be causing this ? server and client are directly via a crossover cable over a dedicated interface. Jan 21 01:21:34 iscsi-client kernel: :

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

2014-01-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Dan McDonald wrote: On Jan 21, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Narayan Desai narayan.de...@gmail.com wrote: We've seen problems like this when we have a SATA drive in a SAS expander that is going out to lunch. Are there any drives showing errors in iostat -En? or any drive timeout messages in

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

2014-01-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Tim, Today Tim Rice wrote: On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Tobias Oetiker wrote: Hi, we are serving ISCSI volumes from our omnios box ... in the log on the client I keep seeing this pattern every few hours. any idea what could be causing this ? server and client are directly via

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

2014-01-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Nld, Today Narayan Desai wrote: Sorry, I should have given the requisite yes, I know that this is a recipe for sadness, for I too have experienced said sadness. That said, we've seen this kind of problem when there was a device in a vdev that was dying a slow death. There wouldn't

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] iscsi timeouts

2014-01-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Saso Kiselkov wrote: I guess you can check for this string at runtime: $ strings /kernel/drv/amd64/igb | grep _eee_support If it is missing, then it could be the buggy EEE support that's throwing your link out of whack here. Nevermind, missed your description of the KVM guests

[OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
a zpool on one of our boxes has been degraded with several disks faulted ... * the disks are all sas direct attached * according to smartctl the offending disks have no faults. * zfs decided to fault the disks after the events below. I have now told the pool to clear the errors and it is

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Zach Malone wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Richard Elling richard.ell...@richardelling.com wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: a zpool on one of our boxes has been degraded with several disks faulted ... * the disks are all sas

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: [...] it happened over time as you can see from the timestamps in the log. The errors from zfs's point of view were 1 read and about 30 write but according to smart the disks

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] zpool degraded while smart sais disks are OK

2014-03-31 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Richard, Mar 23 Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: Yesterday Richard Elling wrote: On Mar 21, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: [...] it happened over time as you can see from the timestamps

[OmniOS-discuss] zfs diskusage

2014-05-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today we were out of diskspace on one of our pools ... a few removed snapshots later all is fine, except that I find that I don't realy understand the numbers ... can anyone elighten me? # zpool list fast NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZCAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT fast 4.34T 1.74T 2.61T

[OmniOS-discuss] announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool

2014-07-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Just out: ZnapZend a Multilevel Backuptool for ZFS It is on Github. Check out http://www.znapzend.org cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 ___

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] announcement znapzend

2014-08-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
of OmniOS-discuss digest... Today's Topics: 1. announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Tobias Oetiker) 2. Re: announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Theo Schlossnagle) 3. Re: announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Saso Kiselkov) 4. Re: Slow scrub performance

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] announcement znapzend

2014-08-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
digest... Today's Topics: 1. announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Tobias Oetiker) 2. Re: announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Theo Schlossnagle) 3. Re: announcement znapzend a new zfs backup tool (Saso Kiselkov) 4. Re: Slow scrub performance

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] announcement znapzend

2014-08-12 Thread Tobias Oetiker
\ --mbuffersize=1G --tsformat='%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S' \ SRC '7d=1h,30d=4h,90d=1d' tank/home \ DST:a '7d=1h,30d=4h,90d=1d,1y=1w,10y=1month' -O 10.0.0.1:9090 - Original Message - From: Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch To: Hafiz Rafibeyli rafibe...@gmail.com Cc: omnios-discuss

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] announcement znapzend

2014-08-12 Thread Tobias Oetiker
--mbuffer=/opt/omni/bin/mbuffer:13872 \ --mbuffersize=1G --tsformat='%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S' \ SRC '7d=1h,30d=4h,90d=1d' tank/home \ DST:a '7d=1h,30d=4h,90d=1d,1y=1w,10y=1month' root@bserv:backup/home cheers tobi - Original Message - From: Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] znapzend question

2014-09-09 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Hafiz Rafibeyli wrote: Hello Tobias, did you try znapzend on Nexenta 4.x?anyway run it on Nexenta? no and second question: is znapzend working with volume based(block based) filesystems? there should be no problem ... cheers tobi regards, Hafiz -- Tobi Oetiker,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Hello znapzend question

2014-09-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
) but otherwhise there is no option for this (yet). cheers tobi i'm using demonize mode Regards, Hafiz - Original Message - From: Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch To: Hafiz Rafibeyli rafibe...@gmail.com Cc: omnios-discuss omnios-discuss@lists.omniti.com Sent: Tuesday, 9 September, 2014 11:54

[OmniOS-discuss] /lib/svc/method/logadm-upgrade - a true engineering marvel

2014-09-22 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I just did a little investigation, why my additions to /etc/logadm.d were not showing up in /etc/logadm.conf and came upon /lib/svc/method/logadm-upgrade Has the person who crafed this little marvel ever wonderd what the meaning of upgrade is ? Seriously ? Maybe the script should have been

[OmniOS-discuss] illumos-kvm network performance

2014-09-24 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi I have been looking into network performance on omnios hosted kvm hosts. especially in connection with ssh. the test is this: physical-linux-host$ ssh -c aes256-cbc virtual-kvm-linux-host dd if=/dev/zero bs=10M count=10 /dev/null running this simple test from a physical ubuntu 12.04

[OmniOS-discuss] kvm performance regresseion r10 - r12

2014-10-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I am still running omnios r10 ...being reluctant to upgrade, because we find that kvm virtio network performance seems to have taken a severe hit from r10 to r12 I am runing this simple test: hw-box$ ssh -c aes256-ctr kvm-guest dd if=/dev/zero bs=10M count=10 /dev/null On r10 I get 31 MB/s

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm performance regresseion r10 - r12

2014-10-29 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Dan, Today Dan McDonald wrote: On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:31 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I am still running omnios r10 ...being reluctant to upgrade, because we find that kvm virtio network performance seems to have taken a severe hit from r10 to r12 I am runing

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] best guide to tftp ?

2014-11-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, Nov 9 Michael Mounteney wrote: [Later] just running # /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -p -d -s /tftpboot doesn't work either. A client-side $ tftp cortex -c get text times out. we found that tftpd on omnios stoped working with the upgrade to r10 .. we have investigated a bit but not

[OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 - r151012 upgrade

2014-12-09 Thread Tobias Oetiker
So tonight, we finally took the plunge and upgraded our zfs/kvm server to r151012 ... the results were terrible. The kvm booted very slowly and all networking felt really slow ... so I did a little test: ubutu-14.04-guest$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=20 | ssh omnios-r151012-host dd

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 - r151012 upgrade

2014-12-09 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Dan McDonald wrote: I have not tested disk performance explicitly, but even booting a windows host took ages ... so I suspect whatever is causing this influences all kvm guest IO. What's really REALLY weird about this is that we did not alter anything about how we built KVM

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 - r151012 upgrade

2014-12-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, Today Michael Mounteney wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 06:14:56 +0100 (CET) Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: This leads me to suspect, that either only very few people are using omnios as a kvm server OR it is also a hardware dependent problem. I think it must be. I'm

[OmniOS-discuss] live lsi firmware upgrade P17-P19

2014-12-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I am looking at upgrading the firmware of our LSI HBAs to P19 since we suspect that our use of P17 is the cause for disk timeouts we are seeing every few weeks. I am wondering, is it save to flash the HBAs from a running omnios system, and if so, has anyone written some notes down on the process

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ipadm issues

2014-12-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
... ipadm only accepts the setting with the -t switch cheers tobi On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I seem to run into trouble with ipadm ... here is the latest root@simplon:~# ipadm show-addr ADDROBJ TYPE STATEADDR lo0/v4

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] ipadm issues

2014-12-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Dan, Yesterday Dan McDonald wrote: On Dec 17, 2014, at 10:47 AM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: On Dec 17, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I seem to run into trouble with ipadm ... here is the latest Silly question -- what does ipadm show

[OmniOS-discuss] in.tftpd not working and how to fix it

2015-02-03 Thread Tobias Oetiker
caveat: due to the kvm performance problem I am still running 010 ... but maybe this is also a problem on more recent versions ... so here goes: after upgrading to 010 the tftp service on our omnios box stopped working properly ... it served a few bytes of the request and then timed out ... we

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] kvm io 10 times slower after r151010 - r151012 upgrade

2015-01-04 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Michael, so your tests wer now exectued on a bloody host ? indicating that the performance went back up in bloody ? cheers tobi Today Michael Mounteney wrote: Sorry to take so long to get back to you Tobias and I hope this is still relevant. As described elsewhere in this list, I had

[OmniOS-discuss] 5296 Support for more than 16 groups with AUTH_SYS

2015-03-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Is https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/89621fe174cf95ae903df6ceab605bf24d696ac3 in 14 ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 ___

[OmniOS-discuss] About P19

2015-03-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Dan, you mentioned in an earlier post that you had not heard anything good about P19 ... this seems to prompt people to consider downgreading to P18 ... Did you mean to say that you had heared something BAD about P19 or just nothing at all. Because I like my firmware best when it just does what

[OmniOS-discuss] incomplete recursive snapshots

2015-03-13 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I got a bunch of new disks on one of our systems and wanted to transfer an existing pool over to them so what I did was this: zfs snapshot -r old-pool@replicaton zfs send -R old-pool@replication | mbuffer -m 1G | zfs receive -F -d new-pool but then halfway through the operation, I got

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] incomplete recursive snapshots

2015-03-13 Thread Tobias Oetiker
/675185/incomplete-recursive-snapshots-on-zfs cheers tobi Dan Sent from my iPhone (typos, autocorrect, and all) On Mar 13, 2015, at 3:25 AM, Tobias Oetiker t...@oetiker.ch wrote: I got a bunch of new disks on one of our systems and wanted to transfer an existing pool over to them so

[OmniOS-discuss] kvm crashing while running replication send/receive

2015-03-23 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I got these bunch of new disks when for our (r12 omnios) server and userd repication send / receive to transfer an existing pool to the new disks. While doing so, we found that the kvm instances running on that machine had a rather pronounced tendency to become unresponsive. Killing the kvm

[OmniOS-discuss] recovering a faulted disk

2015-02-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
If zfs sees too many errors on a disk, it will 'FAULT' the disk, replace it with a spare disk and start resilvering. We have one system where this keeps happening ... as explained in http://lists.omniti.com/pipermail/omnios-discuss/2014-March/002413.html We have since replaced the firmware on

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] UPCOMING: End of Support Life approaching for OmniOS r151010

2015-02-20 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Dan, Today Dan McDonald wrote: Sometime during Q2CY2015 (no earlier than April 1st), OmniOS r151014 will be released. At that time, support for r151010 (previous stable) will be discontinued. This is in accordance with the OmniOS release cycle:

[OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
experts! If you were to buy 6TB disks for a RAIDZ2 Pool, would you go for 512n like in the olden days, or use the new 4Kn. I know ZFS can deal with both ... So what would be your choice, and WHY? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] HGST 7K6000 for a RAIDZ2 pool

2015-02-26 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Today Tobias Oetiker wrote: Hi Marts, Yesterday Warren Marts wrote: At some point sourcing true 512 B/sector disks will get more difficult and expensive - unless you knew this filesystem is likely to see lots of small writes and performance or space efficiency are critical I'd lean

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] [smartos-discuss] kvm network performance survey

2015-04-13 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Michael, Today Michael Rasmussen wrote: On Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:25:42 + John Barfield john.barfi...@bissinc.com wrote: I?ll try to pull some numbers but the truth is that debian based guest versions perform WAY better than CentOS guests. Are the kernels identical in Debian and

[OmniOS-discuss] allocation throttle

2015-06-27 Thread Tobias Oetiker
I am just watching OpenZFS Conference Videos. George Wilson just showed off his allocation throttle work ... is this in omnios already ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] 014 and X540 on intel s2600

2015-06-16 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Friday Tobias Oetiker wrote: We are trying to get an intel 10G network interface x540 to work on omnios r014. We do see the interface with $ dladm show-phys but it does not show any reaction when we plug an ethernet cable leading to a 1Gb switch port. It stays 'down' to resolve

[OmniOS-discuss] 014 and X540 on intel s2600

2015-06-12 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are trying to get an intel 10G network interface x540 to work on omnios r014. We do see the interface with $ dladm show-phys but it does not show any reaction when we plug an ethernet cable leading to a 1Gb switch port. It stays 'down' any ideas ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker,

[OmniOS-discuss] considering an SSD pool ... which SSD

2015-12-08 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We are looking into the possibility of setting up our first SSD based pool ... any recommendations for SSDs to use ? Our System Integrator recommends the use of Intel SSDs as opposed to Samsung since Samsung would be changing their lineup every few weeks and thus make it difficult to source

[OmniOS-discuss] Samsung SM863

2015-12-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Just found that samsung now has an ssd with power loss protection http://www.storagereview.com/samsung_sm863_ssd_review what do you think ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Znapzend installation

2016-06-10 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Lawrence, if you install something from source, NEVER unpack the source in the installation directory ... unpack in /scratch or /tmp ... install to /opt/package-version cheers tobi Today Lawrence Giam wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to test Znapzend on OmniOS R151014 but getting errors on

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] need help with znapzendzetup

2016-05-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Robert znapzend is "push-only" cheers tobi Today Robert Fantini wrote: > Hello, > > I've got znapzend working on omnios. that can remote send to linux using a > napp-it job . > > Next I want to run znapzend on linux and pull from omnios . > > this does not work , > znapzendzetup create \

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LDAP external auth for CIFS service

2016-08-18 Thread Tobias Oetiker
- On 18 Aug, 2016, at 17:15, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: >> On Aug 18, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Mick Burns wrote: >> >> *bump* >> anyone ? > > I'm going to forward your note to someone I know who works on CIFS. He's not > on > this list. looking forward to the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] using proxmox, after upgrade KVM does not start

2016-11-07 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Robert, Today Robert.fantini wrote: > Hello > > My issue may have nothing to do with the omnios upgrade. It could be due to a > mistake I made somewhere else. > > After upgrading to : > OmniOS 5.11 omnios-cac2b76 October 2016 > SunOS sys4 5.11 omnios-cac2b76 i86pc i386 i86pc > > our KVM's using

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] LX zones: configurations

2017-01-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
On 11 Jan, 2017, at 00:03, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: > Given how encompassing the 022 work is, don't hold your breath. If there are > real, provable show-stoppers in LX, fixes may get backported. We have setup ThinLinc (www.cendio.com) in an ubuntu 16.04 lx zone ... ThinLinc is a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVMs locking up for seconds at a time...

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
- On Mar 17, 2017, at 3:02 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: >> On Mar 17, 2017, at 9:42 AM, Tobias Oetiker <t...@oetiker.ch> wrote: >> >> We found the cause of the problem: >> >> svc:/system/rcap:default >> >> enable it and enjo

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] KVMs locking up for seconds at a time...

2017-03-17 Thread Tobias Oetiker
We found the cause of the problem: svc:/system/rcap:default enable it and enjoy the behaviour detailed below plus random hangs on nfs and iscsi export disable it and things are as before cheers tobi - On Mar 13, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Dan McDonald dan...@omniti.com wrote: > Hello! > >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Ang: network configuration script

2017-04-03 Thread Tobias Oetiker
maybe a page on the omnios wiki with pointers would be all that is needed cheers tobi - On Apr 3, 2017, at 8:46 AM, Johan Kragsterman johan.kragster...@capvert.se wrote: > Hi Michael and all! > > > I think this is a good idea, thanks, Michael, but that is not the most > important >

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] The Future of OmniOS

2017-04-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
So, there you have it ... software is not free, and for something as complex and slick as OmniOS, there is serious money involved in keeping it at its current level. It seems that OmniTI has not managed to get this message across to the many organizations relying on OmniOS to run their Servers.

[OmniOS-discuss] kvm instances random short freeze

2017-03-09 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi We are running kvm instances on omni r20 and are experiencing random short freezes. I wrote the following short test script to see how frequent the freezing occurres perl -e 'use Time::HiRes qw(time usleep); my $now = time; while(1){usleep 20; my $next = time; my $diff = $next -

[OmniOS-discuss] what about zfs-io-priority

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Did zfs-io-priority for zones ever make it into omnios ? https://omnios.omniti.com/ticket.php/13 suggests it did but the notes on configuring it from https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Tuning+the+IO+Throttle don't seem to apply. anyone ? cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker,

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] what about zfs-io-priority

2017-03-03 Thread Tobias Oetiker
t 5:32 AM, Tobias Oetiker <t...@oetiker.ch> wrote: > > > > Did zfs-io-priority for zones ever make it into omnios ? > > > > https://omnios.omniti.com/ticket.php/13 suggests it did > > > > but the notes on configuring it from > > > > https://wi

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT - OmniOS r151022m - Security Update!

2017-08-11 Thread Tobias Oetiker
OmniOS Community Edition is releasing OmniOS r151022m three days early as this is an urgent security release. The release contains new versions of git and hg to fix CVE-2017-1000117 CVE-2017-1000116 CVE-2017-1000115 see http://blog.recurity-labs.com/2017-08-10/scm-vulns for details on the

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT OmniOS Community Edition - OmniOSce r151022h

2017-07-12 Thread Tobias Oetiker
the hope that "the community" would take up further development of the OS. 14 weeks later, OmniOS Community Edition is a reality. Andy Fiddaman (www.citrus-it.net), Tobias Oetiker (www.oetiker.ch) and Dominik Hassler have spent some quality time setting up the systems and procedures a

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT First OmniOSce Bloody Update

2017-07-23 Thread Tobias Oetiker
OmniOSce Bloody With the urgent security updates and bug fixes for r151022 out of the way we have spent the last week concentrating on getting bloody updated, including new ISO, USB and PXE images. In addition to bringing us up-to-date with the latest from illumos, we have also bumped many of

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] OmniOS CE question: will there be a LTS stable release?

2017-07-26 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Chris, we have discussed this in the core team and found that no one of us has been using LTS until now and no one is planning to do so in the future ... What we intend, is to support the current and previous release with an emphasis on the current release going forward from r151022. That

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Bug ?

2017-07-02 Thread Tobias Oetiker
- On Jul 2, 2017, at 12:09 PM, Andy Fiddaman omn...@citrus-it.net wrote: > On Thu, 29 Jun 2017, Guenther Alka wrote: > > ; Unless there are news regarding OmniOS my stance is > ; > ; - OmniOS 151022 is a freeze of current Illumos + LX. At the moment it is the > ; most stable and feature rich

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Questions about - End the uncertainty -

2017-07-05 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Gea, the king is dead, long live the king https://gitter.im/omniosorg/Lobby www.omniosce.org the story continues ... cheers tobi - On Jul 5, 2017, at 4:05 PM, Guenther Alka wrote: > about OmniOS and the silence for weeks > For my own future, I have already

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Questions about - End the uncertainty -

2017-07-07 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Aurélien, - On Jul 7, 2017, at 7:55 AM, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Tobias Oetiker < [ mailto:t...@oetiker.ch | > t...@oetiker.ch ] > wrote: >> Hi Aurélien >> the motivation behind OmniOSc

[OmniOS-discuss] How much would a professionally maintained OmniOS be worth to you ? (was: Re: The Future of OmniOS)

2017-04-25 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Folks, so if you would rather have someone maintain omnios fulltime than relying on 'the community' todo it for free, now is the time to come forward. Write down a line in our straw poll spreadsheet ... https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IyAI950a-JkPgRRLSezZm9-Rt8HkfO_nIkubd_m8d_0 then we

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT OmniOSce r151022l

2017-08-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Dear All This is the weekly update for w/c 7th of August 2017 and contains NO security updates but several bugfixes from upstream illumos and joyent lx. For this update, a reboot is required. We are aware that system reboots pose a problem for many sites, so we are investigating ways to

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] To the OmniOS Community

2017-05-15 Thread Tobias Oetiker
- On May 15, 2017, at 11:20 PM, Michael Rasmussen m...@miras.org wrote: > On Mon, 15 May 2017 22:46:10 +0200 > Michael Rasmussen wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 May 2017 07:37:35 +0200 >> Michael Rasmussen wrote: >> >> > To follow example I will commit myself to

[OmniOS-discuss] how about https://github.com/omniosorg

2017-05-16 Thread Tobias Oetiker
since omnios is already taken how about https://github.com/omniosorg cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland www.oetiker.ch t...@oetiker.ch +41 62 775 9902 ___ OmniOS-discuss mailing list

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Loosing NFS shares

2017-06-22 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Oliver, are you running rcapd ? we found that (at least of the box) this thing wrecks havoc to both nfs and iscsi sharing ... cheers tobi - On Jun 22, 2017, at 8:45 AM, Oliver Weinmann wrote: > Hi, > we are using OmniOS for a few months now and

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT OmniOS 151022s (Security Update)

2017-09-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Release Notes for OmniOSce 151022s -- Early weekly release for w/c 25th of September 2017, uname -a shows omnios-r151022-eb9d5cb557 Since this release contains security fixes we urge people to upgrade as soon as possible. ** This update requires a reboot. **

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT: OmniOSce Release Schedule

2017-08-21 Thread Tobias Oetiker
In response to our call for someone to step up to take over responsibility to maintain OmniOS LTS releases we received a number of detailed responses, but only from people interested in using the product and none who wanted to help maintain it. After careful consideration of all the input,

[OmniOS-discuss] ANNOUNCEMENT - OmniOS r151022o - Security Update!

2017-08-28 Thread Tobias Oetiker
OmniOS Community Edition is releasing OmniOS r151022o with a bunch of security fixes: libxml2 fixes for: * CVE-2016-4658 * CVE-2016-5131 * CVE-2017-0663 * CVE-2017-5969 * CVE-2017-9047 * CVE-2017-9048 * CVE-2017-9049 * CVE-2017-9050 bzip2 fix for (we

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Investing into the Future of OmniOS Community Edition

2017-11-27 Thread Tobias Oetiker
with >> a >> (pro forma) invoice online what makes institutional/edu payments >> possible >> (to accept this quotation, pay the amount until..) >> >> - with some sort of an extra offer over the free offerings >> maybe a Pro subscription to beta/

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