Re: OT: rsync on Mac OSX

2013-07-18 Thread Paul Kraus
c understanding resource forks, that I cannot speak to, but it should be easy to test. Copy a directory from an HFS+ volume to a non-Mac OS X volume (NFS for example) using rsync and see if it creates the ._ files to go with the data. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Kraus
"thrashing" where it spends the vast majority of it's time just paging in and out and not actually getting anything done. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-q

Re: BSD sleep

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Kraus
f my time between 1995 and 2012 managing Solaris systems. An occasional Linux system would crop up. When I started really looking at FreeBSD in 2012 (I wanted ZFS and OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana / NexentaCore / Illumos did not support my hardware) I was very happily surprised that it "felt&qu

Re: file corruption solution (soft-update or ZFS)

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Kraus
without DeDupe with as little as 2GB of total system RAM (depending on what else the system is doing). In my experience, the amount of RAM depends on the amount of I/O not the amount of storage. I find between 1GB and 3GB space for the ARC is adequate. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-23 Thread Paul Kraus
th the production server with the 9.1 OS drives, make sure everything is working the way you want 6) import the data zpool If the import fails, you can always put the 9.0 drives back in and get back up and running fairly quickly. My system has the OS on a mirror zpool of two drives for just t

Re: More than 32 CPUs under 8.4-P

2013-05-19 Thread Paul Kraus
only under very heavy I/O load. I only generate such load when migrating large amounts of data, which thankfully does not happen all that often. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company __

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-19 Thread Paul Kraus
TB 29 times you get the same result. But this is a statistical probability, and some drives will have more (much more) uncorrectable errors and others will have less (much less), although I don't know if the distribution falls on a typical gaussian (bell) curve. -- Paul

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-18 Thread Paul Kraus
On May 18, 2013, at 12:49 AM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:03:30PM -0400, Paul Kraus wrote: >> On May 17, 2013, at 6:24 PM, "b...@todoo.biz" wrote: >>> 3. Should I avoid using ZFS since my system is not well tuned and It would >>>

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-18 Thread Paul Kraus
can also set copies=2/3 just in case some errors occur, so ZFS can > auto0repair the data. if you run ZFS over several LUNs this will make even > more sense. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___

Re: ZFS install on a partition

2013-05-17 Thread Paul Kraus
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Re: [offtopic] ZFS mirror install /mnt is empty

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Kraus
> attack or something else. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: List Spam Filtering

2013-05-15 Thread Paul Kraus
it folks to sign up for the forum and NOT get a ton of email. If the forum were publicly readable that would also provide a way to look through (if not search) the archives. I am not trying to make work for people, just suggesting another way to address the competing issues of SPAM redu

Re: ZFS mirror install /mnt is empty

2013-05-14 Thread Paul Kraus
ase than in the case of a mirror, as the RAID code will have less data to process after being compressed. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: ZFS mirror install /mnt is empty

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Kraus
ut new writes will not be. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: ZFS mirror install /mnt is empty

2013-05-13 Thread Paul Kraus
would work (manually setting the ashift to 12 for 4K disks). -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: ZFS partitioning

2013-05-12 Thread Paul Kraus
0 0 >da34p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 >da35p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 > > errors: No known data errors -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___

Re: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread Paul Kraus
On May 11, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: 2013/5/11 Paul Kraus On May 11, 2013, at 10:03 AM, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: > > > There's no mature (or flexible, or "can do what I want" ) way to > > increase/decrease disk sizes in FreeBSD for now {ZFS,U

Re: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread Paul Kraus
s for zpool and zfs are full of such useful information :-) -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread Paul Kraus
ent disk and copy back. Is this a statement or a question ? If a statement, then it is factually FALSE. If it is supposed to be a question, it does not ask anything. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Sche

Re: Tell me how to increase the virtual disk with ZFS?

2013-05-11 Thread Paul Kraus
e remaining device to full size (it may do that anyway based on the setting of the auto expand property of the zpool. The default under 9.1 is NOT to autoexpand: root@FreeBSD2:/root # zpool get autoexpand rootpool NAME PROPERTYVALUE SOURCE rootpool autoexpand off default root@

Re: update from apache22 to apache24

2013-05-03 Thread Paul Kraus
22 to 24, but as part of building a new server to do the same task went from 22 to 24. The "allow/deny" syntax has changed, I'm sure there are others. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenec

Re: 9.1 Postfix problem

2013-04-26 Thread Paul Kraus
On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Paul Kraus writes: > >> When building postfix under 91. I am running into an odd >> problem. I use the INST_BASE option, which seems to cause the problem >> (it worked fine with 9.0). The 'make' g

9.1 Postfix problem

2013-04-16 Thread Paul Kraus
instead of /etc/rc.d. It works fine if INST-BASE is disabled. I looked through the Makefile but could not suss out how that difference in configuration was actually causing the problem. Has anyone else run into this problem and what was the fix (or did you just install into /usr/local) ?

Re: Booting from an aribrary disk in ZFS RAIDZ on 8.x

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Kraus
erms of root FS or in terms of boot loader ? The boot loader would be set in your BIOS (which physical drive you read for that). / comes from the zpool/zfs dataset once the boot loader loads enough code to find and mount the filesystem. That comes from all the drives in the zpool. -- Paul Kraus Dep

Re: cmake fails to build under 9.1

2013-03-06 Thread Paul Kraus
On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:19 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > 05.03.2013 18:51, Paul Kraus: >> In trying to build NagIOS, one of the dependencies is cmake and it is >> failing to build. See below. And if I run make again it will fail on a >> different file, see further d

cmake fails to build under 9.1

2013-03-05 Thread Paul Kraus
ons. *** [Source/CMakeFiles/CMakeLib.dir/cmBootstrapCommands.cxx.o] Error code 1 1 error *** [Source/CMakeFiles/CMakeLib.dir/all] Error code 2 1 error *** [all] Error code 2 1 error *** [do-build] Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/cmake. Thanks. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, Lon

Re: Does anyone know how to install FreeBSD 8.3 under Virtual Box 4.2.6?

2013-03-01 Thread Paul Kraus
minor issues :-) -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: ZFS root, error 2 when mounting root

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Kraus
On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:14 AM, bw wrote: > On 02/25/2013 03:13 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: >> On Feb 24, 2013, at 4:42 AM, bw.mail.lists wrote: >> >>> Basically, I tried to follow >>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/9.0-RELEASE, but ended up >>

Re: Strange delays in ZFS scrub or resilver

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Kraus
to ESATA and it got much better. Unfortunately, my external exclosure has a SATA port expander as I need to talk to 4 external drives. That gives me about a factor of 2 worse performance than the internal SATA drives (even if I am only talking to one drive via the external connection). -- Paul Kr

Re: ZFS root, error 2 when mounting root

2013-02-25 Thread Paul Kraus
ools. So you MUST have a valid zpool.cache file in order to import the zpool containing the "/" zfs dataset -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: [zfs-discuss] zfs + NFS + FreeBSD with performance prob

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Kraus
d I get between 40 and 50 MB/sec throughput on a Gigabit ethernet link. Since you have already ruled out the known sync issue with ZFS and no SSD-based write cache, then perhaps you are running into an NFS 3 vs. NFS 4 issue. I am not sure if Mac OS X is using NF

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
> often, and swap does not have to be mirrored. Note that if you do NOT mirror SWAP, then in the event of a disk failure you will most likely crash when the system tries to swap in some data from the failed drive. If you mirror swap then you do not risk a crash due to missing swa

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Paul Kraus
out there but you have to look for them. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Kraus
derived OS, then the safe bet is to give ZFS the entire disk and let it create the disk label. *Solaris-based OSes that I have used: Solaris 10 OpenSolaris NCP (Nexenta Core Platform) -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schen

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-29 Thread Paul Kraus
t; ^ However Solaris/Sparc uses another labeling scheme. If you want to be > ^ fully compatible with other system GPT is a better choice. > > Is GPT compatible with Solaris, can Solaris access a GPT disk? AFAIK, none of the Solaris derived OSes can read a GPT disk label. -- Paul Kraus Deput

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Kraus
(even with some horribly unreliable low cost HW RAID systems under the ZFS layer... if we had not used ZFS we would have lost data multiple times). -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company _

Re: Starting with ZFS on fresh install

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Kraus
efinition, be children of the rootpool) you will end up with hierarchical datasets. This means that future operations on datasets will have to take place in very specific order (such as mounting and un mounting). By avoiding hierarchical datasets (that are actually used) you avoid that complexity. -

Re: ZFS - whole disk or partition or BSD slice?

2013-01-28 Thread Paul Kraus
? When you give ZFS the whole disk, it writes an EFI-like label on the drive and makes us of one partition for the ZFS data. So there *is* a form of partitioning at the lower most layer, it is just *not* user managed partitioning. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, Lon

Re: OpenSSL Certificate issue

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Kraus
On Jan 10, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > On 1/10/13 1:38 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: > > I put the certs for my test in /etc/ssl/certs when using the base > system openssl and in /usr/local/openssl/certs when using the openssl > port. > > c_rehash uses a specific openss

Re: OpenSSL Certificate issue

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Kraus
> On 1/10/13 12:49 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: >> On Jan 10, 2013, at 12:38 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> >>> It looks like you don't have the Gmail certificate installed >>> locally, unless I'm mistaken. >> >> I do not need to have the Google cert i

Re: OpenSSL Certificate issue

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Kraus
ory (but they are in the directory that c_rehash is working in). -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schenectady Light Opera Company ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

OpenSSL Certificate issue

2013-01-10 Thread Paul Kraus
-Arg : None Start Time: 1357834512 Timeout : 300 (sec) Verify return code: 20 (unable to get local issuer certificate) --- +OK Gpop ready for requests from 208.105.14.76 j10pf1276456vde.5 ^C [root@MailArch /usr/local/openssl/certs]# -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCo

ZFS info WAS: new backup server file system options

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Kraus
: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS , keeping in mind that lots of it was written before FreeBSD 9. I would NOT use ZFS, especially for booting, prior to release 9 of FreeBSD. Some of the reason for this is the bugs that were fixed in zpool version 28 (included in release 9). -- Paul Kraus

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Kraus
reebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ and you can then view that on your iPad. Look for the Bookshelf or some such, I use an iPod Touch and while similar, they are not identical to the iPad. -- Paul Kraus Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 Sound Coordinator, Schen

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
start it. Yes, I know I could script it, but that adds one additional layer that needs to be supported. P.S. I did get my VM repaired, very slowly and painfully, but I still need to track down the VBox GUI issue. -- {1-2-3-4-5-6-7-} Pa

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Paul Kraus wrote: >> >> I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 >> tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited >> to

Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
= 1 (0x1) 10709: read(7,"\^A\^A\^F\0\0\0\0\0\^A\0\0\0\^A"...,4096) = 32 (0x20) 10709: read(7,0x80193a02c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavailable' 10709: read(7,0x80193a02c,4096) ERR#35 'Resource temporarily unavai

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Kraus
rom a drive does not corrupt a file. -- {1-2-3-4-5-----6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Principal Consultant, Business Information Technology Systems -> Deputy Technical Director, LoneStarCon 3 (http://lonestarcon3.org/) -> Sound Coordinator,

Re: cksum entire dir??

2012-09-11 Thread Paul Kraus
les special files. The problem with it is that it tends to be slow (I had to validate millions of files). -- {1-2-----3-----4-5-6-7-} Paul Kraus -> Principal Consultant, Business Information Technology Systems -> Deputy Technical Directo