Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-19 Thread Dave Pooser
the individual disks and ZFS can handle redundancy and recovery. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
to not just an earlier kernel but an earlier world?) Just my $.02. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well-preserved piece, but to slide across the finish line broadside, thoroughly used up

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
because *every* technical mailing list has some bitter losers with no social skills, but it might be food for thought, if you ever do that sort of thing. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Dave Pooser
bound to get angry and defensive. But Vadim's post resonated with me, as he covered many of the reasons I'd decided to retire FreeBSD in my company, so I figured I'd add one more perspective. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com ...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention

Re: SAS controller for FreeBSD

2011-06-25 Thread Dave Pooser
options. The IT firmware disables the integrated RAID and makes them true HBAs; the IR firmware activates the integrated RAID. Buy the cards, flash 'em with the IT firmware and you're good to go. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com There are two novels that can change a bookish 14

Best SATA/SAS controller for ZFS on FreeBSD 8.2 RELEASE?

2011-05-11 Thread Dave Pooser
: mpt_cam_event: 0x12 May 11 18:00:08 backbone kernel: mpt1: mpt_cam_event: 0x16 -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com If you think bringing a wet noodle to an Amish rake fight makes you 'better armed' for it, then you have a funny understanding of how the universe works. -- Al Iverson

Ongoing JRE support in FreeBSD?

2011-05-01 Thread Dave Pooser
deployment going forward, or am I better off taking the road more traveled and deploying on Linux? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions It's the only way to make progress. -- Terry Pratchett

Re: PostgreSQL + 8.1 RELEASE + DTrace = pain?

2010-12-14 Thread Dave Pooser
On 12/6/10 11:29 PM, Dave Pooser dave-free...@pooserville.com wrote: I used pkg_delete to remove the postgresql packages (server and client), recompiled the kernel to include DTrace and eliminate some unused drivers, updated loader.conf to bring up dtraceall at boot, did a make clean

PostgreSQL + 8.1 RELEASE + DTrace = pain?

2010-12-06 Thread Dave Pooser
-server again. It appeared to work fine, but now I'm getting segfaults when I try to launch it. Am I doing something obviously stupid here? Is there a good source for troubleshooting steps? What other information should I be posting to help y'all help me figure this out? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder