Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Albert Shih
Le 31/05/2012 ? 11:32:33-0400, Oscar Hodgson a écrit > The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better > place to be asking this question ... > > We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD > pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD

Re: editors/libreoffice:internal build errors: ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.2.2/vcl/prj

2012-05-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-05-31 19:35, Jens Jahnke skrev: Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:17 +0200 "Hartmann, O." wrote: HO> I found myself incapable of rebuilding/updating editors/libreoffice HO> on ALL FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-CURRENT (amd64) platforms HO> with the very same error message as shown belo

Re: (no subject)

2012-05-31 Thread Eitan Adler
On 29 May 2012 20:06, wrote: > >    Hello, >   I am moving away from MS products due to security a nd stability >   concerns.  Below are the machines I use and would like to know which >   version of FreeBSD will work best with each.  The computer s are used >   at home and away, for e-mail, prep

MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG="Yes" When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get an error that the user may not set this. If I use 'make MK_CLANG_IS_CC="no"' the port compiles. How do I fix this

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Warren Block wrote: I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I r

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 2012-05-31 at 19:27 -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > --As of May 31, 2012 11:24:41 AM -0700, Dennis Glatting is alleged to have > said: > > > 2) Under heavy I/O my systems freeze for a few seconds. I haven't looked > > into why but they are completely unresponsive. Note I am also using > > co

Re: HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> From Gary Aitken : > I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. > hp-probe finds it: > #hp-probe -bnet > HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) > Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 > ... > Device URI Model

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 31, 2012 11:24:41 AM -0700, Dennis Glatting is alleged to have said: 2) Under heavy I/O my systems freeze for a few seconds. I haven't looked into why but they are completely unresponsive. Note I am also using compressed volumes (gzip), which puts a substantual load on the kernel.

Re: Corrections to: unable to upgrade to mysql55-server

2012-05-31 Thread Gene
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:18:25 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote > On 30/05/2012 17:57, Gene wrote: > > I've been trying to install the port databases/mysql55-server, updating from > > the older 5.4 version. mysql55-client installed just fine. However, when I > > "make" the '-server' port I get the e

HP networked printer -- hp-setup won't use, hp-probe finds

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
I've got an HP printer directly connected to the local network. hp-probe finds it: #hp-probe -bnet HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.2) Printer Discovery Utility ver. 4.1 ... Device URI Model Name --

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:43:27 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: > > Still, there _is_ a way of a workaround which is so ugly and > > partially stupid that I fear to mention it. > > > > You need a cable, 2 x 3.5mm stereo jack, which you connect > > from the front conne

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. > I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged > to an USB2(two!) reports > da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 > da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 12:56, Polytropon wrote: > This functionality is not present on modern boards anymore. > Also note it's not digital. It's analog. GND plus two > channels. Audio transmission using the 40/80 pin (P)ATA > cable would have been digital. Thanks for the correction, I thought I knew that.

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
The thought never crossed my mind. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against > Linux + fuse ZFS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:26:21 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works > >> ok -- playing from a file works. > > > > You're sure it's a normal aud

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 09:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. > I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged > to an USB2(two!) reports > > da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 > da5: Fixed Direct Access SCS

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Kaya Saman wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Oscar Hodgson wrote: That helps.  Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment.  We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of stu

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Oscar Hodgson wrote: That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so much, and the Oracle single-tie

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise ASUS M4A89TD mobo

2012-05-31 Thread Gary Aitken
On 05/31/12 05:54, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: >> The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works >> ok -- playing from a file works. > > You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How actually is one supposed > to mount audio CDs? They're _

Re: How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 31 May 2012, at 17:57, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > hello, world\n > > so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. > I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged > to an USB2(two!) reports > >da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 >da5:

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Oscar Hodgson wrote: The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ... We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS.

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
I'm doing this with HP heads, LSI SAS adapters, and http://www.dataonstorage.com/ JBODs. Note: the DataOn JBODs are very, very hard to get right now because these are really rebadged LSI devices and LSI sold this division to NetApp, who promptly shut it down to prevent people like us from m

Re: editors/libreoffice:internal build errors: ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/libreoffice-core-3.5.2.2/vcl/prj

2012-05-31 Thread Jens Jahnke
Hi, On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:12:17 +0200 "Hartmann, O." wrote: HO> I found myself incapable of rebuilding/updating editors/libreoffice HO> on ALL FreeBSD 9-STABLE and FreeBSD 10-CURRENT (amd64) platforms HO> with the very same error message as shown below. I ran into the same issue on my 9-STABLE

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against > Linux + fuse ZFS. > Yes I agree; as far as I understand ZFS in Linux is still in testing and in any case not part of the Linux kernel which means dramatic perfor

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Damien Fleuriot
As a side note and in case you were considering, I strongly advise against Linux + fuse ZFS. On 31 May 2012, at 18:05, Oscar Hodgson wrote: > That helps. Thank you. > > This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. > We had a great relationship with Sun, they provide

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Victor Sudakov
Warren Block wrote: > > > > I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following > > tweaking so far: > > > > 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). > > > > 2. mount -o noatime > > > > 3. tunefs -t enable > > > > I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really n

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Oscar Hodgson wrote: > That helps.  Thank you. > > This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. >  We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great > opportunities to put Solaris in front of students.  Oracle, not so > much, and t

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
That helps. Thank you. This is an academic departmental instructional / research environment. We had a great relationship with Sun, they provided great opportunities to put Solaris in front of students. Oracle, not so much, and the Oracle single-tier support model simply isn't affordable for th

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:11:11 am Mark Felder wrote: > So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a > state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about > getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over > a netw

How to use an external USB3.0 drive with 4k sectors?

2012-05-31 Thread Jens Schweikhardt
hello, world\n so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go. I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged to an USB2(two!) reports da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0 da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da5: 40.000MB/s transfers

Re: Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
If this is any consellation I run a 36TB cluster using a self built server with a Promise DAS (VessJBOD 1840) using ZFS at home! to support my OpenSource projects and personal files. As for OS take your pick: NexentaStor, FreeBSD, Solaris 11 All capable, of course Solaris has latest version of Z

Anyone using freebsd ZFS for large storage servers?

2012-05-31 Thread Oscar Hodgson
The subject is pretty much the question. Perhaps there's a better place to be asking this question ... We have (very briefly) discussed the possibility of using FreeBSD pizza boxes as a storage heads direct attached to external JBOD arrays with ZFS. In perusing the list, I haven't stumbled acros

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread Mark Felder
So when this hang happens, there never is a real panic. It just sits in a state which I describe as like being in a deadlock. How would I go about getting a crashdump if it never panics? Is it possible to do the dump over a network or something because I don't believe it can write through the

Re: Hardware compatability question

2012-05-31 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi, it's not really about the machines but more the hardware. FreeBSD is quite diverse in what it can run on so best bet check the HCL's off the www.freebsd.org website as that would give you the best idea! Otherwise just install and see what works and doesn't. FreeBSD is pretty comprehensive of

Re: Please help me diagnose this crazy VMWare/FreeBSD 8.x crash

2012-05-31 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:56:02 pm Mark Felder wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2012 12:17:07 -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > Humm, can you test it with 2 CPUs? > > > > We primarily only run with 1 CPU. We have seen it crash on multiple CPU > VMs. Also, Dane Foster appeared to have been using m

FreeBSD9 fails to install on HP Proliant (crash)

2012-05-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD9 (64bit) on a HP Proliant server (ProLiant DL385 G1). Installation is done via remote-management ("iLO") basically by mounting the Installation-ISO. However a couple of seconds after booting the box crashes. Here's what I tried already: o) Re-download the ins

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (u

Re: 9.0 on SSD

2012-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following tweaking so far: 1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too). 2. mount -o noatime 3. tunefs -t enable I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really ne

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 5/31/2012 12:19 PM, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Could you copy

Re: Audio CD issue -- most everything but noise

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 00:38:46 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > The cd mounts a regular file system ok and audio generally works > ok -- playing from a file works. You're sure it's a normal audio CD? How actually is one supposed to mount audio CDs? They're _audio_ CD format, no ISO-9660 file system on th

Re: fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote: > Good afternoon. > Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted > file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters > > > ftp # mount > ... > / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, re

fsck on a mounted fs as read-only

2012-05-31 Thread dmitry
Good afternoon. Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters ftp # mount ... / dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (ufs, NFS exported, local, read-only) Launched with these parameters and this is what gives ftp # fsck -yf

Re: Address to reach human operator regarding problems with list?

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas Mueller
> freebsd-questions-owner@... is correct, except that to my knowledge > there isn't really a moderator for freebsd-questions (it's an open list > that anyone can post to without having to be a member) and that address > ultimately gets dealt with by postmas...@freebsd.org. > The message you got ab

Re: mercurial (hg) transaction abort!

2012-05-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 09:47:06AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:40:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:08:07PM +0200, uki wrote: > > > Did you try to hg clone -U and than update? > > > > > > Mozilla repo is quite big, and that _migh

Re: mercurial (hg) transaction abort!

2012-05-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:40:00PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 01:08:07PM +0200, uki wrote: > > Did you try to hg clone -U and than update? > > > > Mozilla repo is quite big, and that _might_ be the reason, splitting > > the work in 2 parts will help if that was the

Re: starting xfce4 reboots machine

2012-05-31 Thread Joe Gain
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Waitman Gobble wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Waitman Gobble wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrot