Re: Installing 9.1 without re-partitioning hard drive

2013-03-16 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 15 Mar 2013, leeoliveshackelf...@surewest.net wrote: Good evening, Free BSD enthusiasts. Thank you to each of the several people who have responded to my previous messages. I have made significant progress, but am now flummoxed at the installation of the boot loader. The handbook

NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
This is really weird. A FreeBSD 9.1 system mounts the following: /dev/ad4s1a989M625M285M69%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1d7.8G 1G6.1G14%/var /dev/ad4s1e 48G9.4G 35G21%/usr /dev/ad4s1f390G127G

Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1?

2013-03-16 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have an old system happily running 6.4 but am finding that it can no longer download or build a ports index. Thus I guess it's time to upgrade. What gotchas do I need to look out for? In the past my upgrades have always been simply downloading new source, reviewing kernel config file, and

Re: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1?

2013-03-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 16), Drew Tomlinson said: I have an old system happily running 6.4 but am finding that it can no longer download or build a ports index. Thus I guess it's time to upgrade. What gotchas do I need to look out for? In the past my upgrades have always been simply

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.comwrote: This is really weird. A FreeBSD 9.1 system mounts the following: /dev/ad4s1a989M625M285M69%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ad4s1d7.8G 1G6.1G14%/var

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: With respect to your mount points : /usr1 is spanning TWO different partitions : /dev/ad4s1f390G127G231G35%/usr1 /dev/ad6s1d902G710G120G86%/usr1/BKU because /usr1/BKU is a sub-directory of

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: With respect to your mount points : /usr1 is spanning TWO different partitions : /dev/ad4s1f390G127G231G35%/usr1 /dev/ad6s1d902G

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread iamatt
just slap an netapp 8.x with an avere flash box in front if you want NFS performance... or isilon. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk m.e.sanlit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 03/16/2013 04:20 PM, Mehmet

Re: Upgrade from 6.4 to 9.1?

2013-03-16 Thread Fbsd8
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 16), Drew Tomlinson said: I have an old system happily running 6.4 but am finding that it can no longer download or build a ports index. Thus I guess it's time to upgrade. What gotchas do I need to look out for? In the past my upgrades have always

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN : 978-1-59327-151-0 ) , is suggesting the following ( p. 248 ) : In client ( mount , or , fstab ) , use options ( -o tcp , intr , soft , -w=32768 , -r=32768 ) tcp option will

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN : 978-1-59327-151-0 ) , is suggesting the following ( p. 248 ) : In client ( mount , or , fstab )

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 03/16/2013 10:15 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Tim Daneliuk tun...@tundraware.com mailto:tun...@tundraware.com wrote: On 03/16/2013 05:43 PM, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Michael W. Lucas in Absolute FeeBSD , 2nd Edition , ( ISBN :

Re: NFS Performance: Weirder And Weirder

2013-03-16 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
There is one more point to check : From your mount information , in the server , directories are on DIFFERENT drives . Assume one of the drives is very INTELLIGENT to save power . During local reading , due to reading speed , it may not go to SLEEP , but during network access , it may go to