Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Modulok
My other concern is what happens when one drive goes down if we use gmirror? Is it completelly transparent and bad drive can be hot swapped while server is running and rebuild started? I am thinking now about gpt+gmirror (including boot and swap) Artem Yes. In fact, you can test this by

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Joshua Isom
On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard drive? Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the drive, and

Network PHY driver source code

2013-01-30 Thread Hrisikesh sahu
Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT and GEOM metadata. In short: right now, they conflict. It's possible to

Re: Network PHY driver source code

2013-01-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/30/2013 12:13 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Hi all, Could you guide me where I can find all the supported PHY driver source code details ? I want to know what are the PHY drivers supported within Freebsd 9.1 Release. Please help me on this. Regards Hrisikesh Hi My guess:

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Fbsd8
Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. It starts the

Re: http://localhost/phpmyadmin

2013-01-30 Thread Fbsd8
Rasel Ahmed wrote: Please help me what the applied host in website ? Sent from my iPhone You have to provide details of your problem before some one can help you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks. I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found it very good wrt to both performance and robustness. You can spend the extra money you spare on the

Re: Network PHY driver source code

2013-01-30 Thread Hrisikesh sahu
Thanks a lot for quick reply. There is no file within /usr/src folder. Could you please tell me how to get those source files for freebsd 9.1 release? On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote: On 01/30/2013 12:13 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Hi all, Could you

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 1:01, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 29.01.2013 18:57, Warren Block: On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: The Handbook chapter on gmirror talks about the problems with GPT

Re: Network PHY driver source code

2013-01-30 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/30/2013 02:43 PM, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: Thanks a lot for quick reply. There is no file within /usr/src folder. Could you please tell me how to get those source files for freebsd 9.1 release? You didn't install the sources when installing FreeBSD? For 9.1-RELEASE i386 you can get the

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 30, 2013, at 8:10 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: You can spend the extra money you spare on the controller buying good disks; as someone else pointed out don't get desktop-class ones, but 24x7 ones. Server Class drives buy you some improvement, but my recent experience with Seagate

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
There seems to be one more advantage to gmirror If i understood correctly gmirror label -v -b split -s 2048 data da0 da1 da2 will create a tripple mirror raid 1, that is triple redundancy, which is hardly available on any hardware raid. Am i correct here? Also, does anyone know how to choose

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: 30.01.2013 18:06, Warren Block: GPT partitions should work, just limit it to one mirrored partition per drive. Please, clarify what you mean here. If only one GPT partition on a drive is mirrored with another GPT partition on another drive, head

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't change often, and swap does

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Artem Kuchin
30.01.2013 19:28, Paul Kraus: On Jan 30, 2013, at 10:22 AM, Warren Block wrote: If you want to use the same drive for booting, it's possible. Create all three partitions on both drives manually. Then mirror the freebsd-ufs partition only. The contents of the freebsd-boot partition don't

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Artem Kuchin wrote: Also, not being able to boot if first disk has some error in boot section or just strangly dead is not an option too. However, i was just thinking, if i use gmirror then bios does not know anything about it. I may set both harddisk as boot disk, but if

Supported Hardware list update request.

2013-01-30 Thread Jean-Luc BLANC
Hello, I would like to know the process to have a new version of hardware product listed in this page: http://bsssd.sourceforge.net/hardware.html#hardware Our TPM is fully compliant with the current driver provided as a module with latest FreeBSD 9.1. Best Regards,

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hardie
On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The bios will not boot from USB stick. I

Re: Booting Problem

2013-01-30 Thread doug
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: Doug Hardie wrote: On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on.

9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Gary Aitken
I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the partitions to the various filesystems. AFIK, I did not otherwise

9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Robert Huff
Gary Aitken writes: I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. While the it wouldn't boot is catastrophically imprecise, I had what sounds like a similar problem

Re: 9.1 install wipes out gpart boot blocks?

2013-01-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Gary Aitken wrote: I used gpart to set up a new disk, then went through a 9.1 install. Everything seemed to go fine, but when time came to boot the new drive, it wouldn't boot. What did it say? When doing the 9.1 install, I selected the disk and had to assign the