I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots
but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this system
to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine.
My question is: will dump / (root) make a dump of *ALL* other directories?
yanta# df -h
Filesystem
Op 7-2-2012 12:23, Vincent Hoffman schreef:
On 07/02/2012 11:00, dick wrote:
I run a ZFS on root FreeBSD system. I know I can backup with snapshots
but I want a dump/restore action because I want to transfer this
system to a UFS virtual FreeBSD machine.
My question is: will dump / (root) make
I'm a bit confused. I always believed FreeBSD is a very safe system.
That may be true for the core files, but what about ports.
On the net I read _never_ to let the webserver be the owner of its files
and yet, ports like Drupal or WordPress make the files rwx for the owner
(www) as well as
Is it true that freebsd-update does not update the souce files from
8.2-R to 9.0-RELEASE? And if not what is the best way to get the src.txz
installed on an updated system? I do have the disc1 iso. Is src.txz
installed under /usr/src or /usr/src/sys?
Op 16-1-2012 13:17, Magnus Strahlert schreef:
On 15 January 2012 14:23, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote:
Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a zfs on
root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root system?
Did all went well? I know
Op 14-1-2012 17:04, Mike Clarke schreef:
On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I had not heard of this project before. Sounds very nice if it works.
Manging BE's is one of the main things I miss in the FreeBSD ZFS
support. Coming from (open)Solaris this was quite a disappointment
Does anybody already did a *binary* update (w/ freebsd-update) from a
zfs on root freebsd-8.2-RELEASE to a new freebsd-9.0-RELEASE zfs on root
system? Did all went well? I know the procedure (freebsd-update,
recompile all ports, finish freebsd-update). Succes stories please.. ;-)
Op 13-1-2012 15:00, Polytropon schreef:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:42:03 +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear
Op 14-1-2012 12:37, Mike Clarke schreef:
On Saturday 14 January 2012, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
My system is running ZFS on root now, so I would very much like to
hear if the binary upgrade through freebsd-update works well for such
a system (w/ zfs on root). I don't want to get stuck
I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.
My main problem lies with the installed ports. I know the -all- have to
be recompiled, but I
Op 13-1-2012 14:56, Bas Smeelen schreef:
On 01/13/2012 02:42 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I possible I want my server to upgrade from 8.2-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE.
I guess the binary upgrade will not be a problem with freebsd-update -r
9.0-RELEASE fetch If so, I do like to hear the caveats.
My main
Op 9-1-2012 21:06, Chuck Swiger schreef:
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, alexus wrote:
there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports?
The PHP maintainer decides the default options, which is what the precompiled
package you got used. While many people want PHP in the
Op 9-1-2012 21:02, alexus schreef:
there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports?
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Peterfb...@peterk.org wrote:
I created a jail and within a jail I did
pkg_add -r apache22
pkg_add -r php5
now I have apache and php, but whenever I'm
Op 9-1-2012 23:00, alexus schreef:
Thank you so much for this wonderful feedback!
One of the things I'm seeing is that unfortunately packages are
somewhat limited vs ports...
For example:
I'm trying to get Apache httpd + PHP to work, after pkg_add -r php5,
php5 doesn't have libphp5.so that
Op 10-1-2012 12:36, Eric Masson schreef:
Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl writes:
Hi,
As I write in another reply: that's true and totally stupid imo.
*You* think it's stupid.
Yes, as I wrote: stupid imo
But thanks again for your reply. You may be right but I still feel it's
better to *have
Op 10-1-2012 15:30, Damien Fleuriot schreef:
On 1/10/12 11:11 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Op 9-1-2012 21:06, Chuck Swiger schreef:
On Jan 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, alexus wrote:
there is no way to make it like that? so it has to be build via ports?
The PHP maintainer decides the default options
Op 10-1-2012 15:32, Damien Fleuriot schreef:
A possible alternative that would keep everyone happy would be
*another* package that actually includes the module, like for example
a package called mod_php5, it would install the stuff from php5 +
the apache module.
That is the way CentOS
Why do I get a warning if I use freebsd-update about a renewal of my
FreeBSD installation within the next two months because after that time
it will nog be supported anymore?
I run FreeBSD-release-p4. Freebsd-update 'sees' p3. Is this the cause?
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Op 4-12-2011 13:03, andrew clarke schreef:
From what I understand, the focus is on releasing FreeBSD 9.0, and 8.3
will be released after that. But 9.0 is still in testing. Despite the
message, I suspect security updates for 8.2 will still be issued for
several months after 8.3 is released, to
Setting up plans for the upcoming 9.0 release I have one question.
Assuming the freebsd-update utility will bring me from the 8.2-release
to the new 9.0-release I'm not sure what to do exactly with the
installed ports.
I always use portmaster. What steps do I take to get from installed
ports
If you really want. GUI based server, go for a Windows one. It will cost you
but security has improved. I would never do it though but I manage my server
with shell tools. I love the easiness of textbased config files ;)
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A few days back I did a portmaster -a -B -d but later on I found out
that one port (www/eAccelerator) complained about being compiled for
another version of PHP (which by then was updated by portmaster). I
expected portmaster to take care of these kind of dependencies. Where am
I wrong in this
Op 28-8-2011 16:27, Matthew Seaman schreef:
Ideally ports committers should bump the
eaccelerator PORTREVISION to make ports management tools do that
automatically, but if not, you're going to have to remember to do it by
hand.
Thank you for your explanation. I enjoyed reading it and learned a
as a guest under most virtualization software works well
This is very true, I agree. I've set up a ZFS root system with four
disks lately to try out before doing so on rela hardware and it worked
very very well.
Dick
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I installed the drupal7 port but noticed that the webserver root (the
drupal core files) were *all* owned by www:www Isn't this an enormous
security risk to have apache being able to write in the core directorues
of drupal7?
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I would like to get some suggestions on the configuration of zfs
snapshots taken for the root pool.
zfs-snapshot-mgmt.conf.example just gives some info on /usr/home and/or /usr
Does anybody use this utility for automated snapshots for his/her
rootpool and want to share some code?
I use it in
I need pdo_mysql.so for Drupal7 to work correctly, but I only see pdo.so
and pdo_sqlite.so in the php5 extension directory. So, I checked the
'make config' to see if I forgot something. But the option to build
pdo_mysql is not there. How do I get this pdo_mysql.so file?
PhpMyAdmin shows:
Server: Localhost via UNIX socket
Server version: 5.5.15
Protocol version: 10
User: root@localhost
MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf8)
Apache/2.2.19 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.19 OpenSSL/0.9.8q DAV/2 PHP/5.3.6
with Suhosin-Patch
MySQL client version: mysqlnd
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace the second
one for a larger disk and wait for the resilvering again. That's it.
Been there,
Op 1-8-2011 16:37, Dan Nelson schreef:
In the last episode (Aug 01), Dick Hoogendijk said:
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
larger one, wait for the resilvering and after this replace
Op 1-8-2011 17:06, andrew clarke schreef:
On Mon 2011-08-01 16:30:50 UTC+0200, Dick Hoogendijk (d...@nagual.nl) wrote:
OK, my freebsd system runs on ZFS boot. W/ solaris getting larger disks
for a pool was quit easy. Simply replace one disk from a mirror for a
larger one, wait
Op 29-7-2011 22:14, Daniel Staal schreef:
On Fri, July 29, 2011 2:26 pm, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Can one of you tell me why it is not possible to browse .zfs directories
(from snapshots) with midnight commander? I'm running FreeBSD-8.2 w/ mc
from ports.
Manually switching to .zfs and it's
Op 25-7-2011 18:59 schreef Chad Perrin:
So the problem is not a missing app, it is more of the usual vendor
lock stuff.
There's that -- but there's also a lot of missing applications.
HTC is removing the root lock protection soon.
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I want a plain console version of emacs installed on my freebsd-8.2
system. So I chose the editors/emacs-nox11 port, but I get an option
screen with a lot of options set to 'on' for which I get the feeling
they are X related. I.e. Freetype, Jpeg, Gif, GConf en lots of others.
So, I'm confused
Op 24-7-2011 2:00 schreef Jerry:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:58:07 -0600
Chad Perrin articulated:
You are clearly an asshole who has no interest in having a reasonable
discussion. Newer methods do not frighten me, you stupid asshole.
Thanks Chad. At one time I thought you were intelligent with
It may be a stupid question but my FreeBSD-8.2 system lacks a /compat
directory. Is this normal? does it get installed through some kind of
software package?
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Op 19-7-2011 12:21 schreef Polytropon:
So it should be there when you've been using sysinstall
for system installation. If you've used a different tool
(or no tool), it may be the reason why it is missing.
I installed a ZFS on root system using the known scripts. So the symlink
is not created
Op 17-7-2011 14:17 schreef Subbsd:
community decreases. It is a pity that many developers of FreeBSD have
left in Apple, the small part works over {NET,OPEN,DRAGONFLY}.BSD but
as a whole it already absolutely small small groups of people.
And do you feel this will be the end of FreeBSD?
I've been a GUI man for the last couple of years. Recently I wanted to
change back to the two programs I used most: mutt (email) and slrn
(news) only to find out they were not in ports anymore. Yes I know,
there'se japanese versions, but what ever happened to the 'normal'
programs? Are they
Op 12-7-2011 11:39 schreef Dick Hoogendijk:
I've been a GUI man for the last couple of years. Recently I wanted to
change back to the two programs I used most: mutt (email) and slrn
(news) only to find out they were not in ports anymore. Yes I know,
there'se japanese versions, but what ever
OK, so now my ZFS on root FreeBSD-8.2 system runs smoothly and I'm very
happy being able to have ZFS (coming from solaris11), but.. what is the
best strategy to back this fbsd system up. do I create various ZFS
backup filesystem streams or can I easely backup the zroot pool as a
whole? And if
Op 29-6-2011 23:45, Gary Gatten schreef:
2 Mega Bytes? Surely that's a typo, but is it 200MB? 2GB?
Those that know ZFS will want to know the primary use / load of this system.
It was a typo for sure. Should be 2GB
It will be a server, so no X
FAMP
Mailserver for 10 users (imap)
Nameserver
On solaris you can have different BE's (boot environments) using ZFS.
Is this possible with FreeBSD ZFS? I can't recall ever have seen a tool
like BEadm (solaris).
But maybe using ZFS manually I can get more BE's?
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I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in a
VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure on a
real systrem with two drives and I can't get the system to boot
properly. Everytime it halts at the mountroot prompt.
If I manually put zfs:zroot at the
Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in
a VM the other day and all went well. Now I did the same procedure
on a real systrem with two drives and I can't get
Op 29-6-2011 21:19, Trond Endrestøl schreef:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:18+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Op 29-6-2011 21:15, Trond Endrestøl schreef:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42+0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I'm a little desperade. I installed a mirrored ZFS freebsd system in
a VM the other day
I would welcome some advise on zfs tuning. Coming from solaris I need
this info.
The system only has 2MB of ram. No problems running solaris11 in it so
far so FreeBSD should do just fine too, but who can suggest some
settings for:
vm.kmem_size
vm.kmem_size_max
vfs.zfs.arc_max
OK, I follow the manual but still...
I have a disk fo 20Gb
I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it:
# gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0
- md0 created
# gpart show md0
34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M)
Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea of why the whole
disk is nog used?
What am I
Op 25-6-2011 15:14 schreef Dick Hoogendijk:
OK, I follow the manual but still...
I have a disk fo 20Gb
I create a GPT table for the whole disk on it:
# gpart create -s gpt /dev/md0
- md0 created
# gpart show md0
34 8573 md0 GPT (4.2M)
Only 4 Mb?? Not really what I wanted. Anyone an idea
Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud:
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl
mailto:d...@nagual.nl wrote:
OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an
ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD.
However, I have one question
OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs
/boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD.
However, I have one question:
I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror
In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but how's
this in this situation
Op 2-4-2011 19:03, Randal L. Schwartz schreef:
That's one of the first things I do with a fresh system that will be
only a server:
echo WITHOUT_X11=yes /etc/make.conf
And then *never* use packages. Only ports
Are the quotes neccessary?
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On 2-4-2011 2:51, Polytropon wrote:
So there is still stuff one needs to compile, and
YOU are in charge to define the options you need.
This is the downside when you're running a multi-
purpose OS like FreeBSD.
That is a good thing. But I remember an issue that I never understood. I
onced set
My system disk is dying. No problem here. I know how to move a FreeBSD
system to new hardware. I have a question though about my GEOM mirror.
The system now had one geom mirror consisting of two 1Tb drives. How can
I move that mirror over to the Fbsd system on the new hardware. I guess
I don't
On 6-11-2010 11:02, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 06/11/2010 09:35, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
My system disk is dying. No problem here. I know how to move a FreeBSD
system to new hardware. I have a question though about my GEOM mirror.
The system now had one geom mirror consisting of two 1Tb drives
Yes, of course I did.
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On 6-11-2010 13:39, RW wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 23:22:49 +0100
Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote:
Yes, of course I did.
Then of course you should have mentioned it.
Ans of course you are right. ;-)
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Trying to update with portmaster (-a -B -d) but everytime the process
stops after some time and I can't find out why this happens. All I see
is a screen full of names, but no message why the thing dumped core.
Is there a way to find out _WHY_ portmaster can't complete the proces?
Up 'till now I had a server without X. I've a need however to be able to
graphically work on that server so I thought: I install
x11-servers/xorg.server and after that I build windowmaker (nice and
light). However, this does not seem to be enough to get X working.
Can somebody tell me what to
Hmmm, php5-mysqli did not upgrade properly using the most recent ports.
Compile errors. That does not happen often, but it does happen. ;-)
After a make config in lang/php5-extensions and disabling mysqli support
the portmaster proces completed OK.
Are the forwarders in your named.conf file OK?
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On 27-9-2010 21:07, Joshua Isom wrote:
On 9/27/2010 12:00 PM, Phan Quoc Hien wrote:
hi!
How to prevent symbolic links in pure-ftp for security issuse?
User can access outsite chroot by create symlink: ln -s / abc = and
user
can change dir to /
Anyone can solve this problem?
Have you
I'm in doubt. I wanted to bring my ports collection uptodate, so I ran
csup -L 2 /root/ports-supfile and that updated my ports collection. At
least, I hope so.
Then I started googling and found that cvsup is not recommended. Better
tot use portsnap (???)
And also portupgrade was a no go. I
On 26-9-2010 19:13, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Really either of those two will serve you well, as will various others
I like portupgrade.
One question about dependencies: if I want to update *one* port I have
to run portupgrade -R portname, right.
But *when* do I run portupgrade -R ,name c.q.
On 22-9-2010 21:35, Matthew Seaman wrote:
On 22/09/2010 20:04:25, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
You're certainly not the only one liking CUPS. I long hesitated to use
it, but once I'd decided to do so, I wouldn't go back to lpr. No way.
It's very easy to set up and does a great job. CUPS is OK
On 22-9-2010 17:06, Dánielisz László wrote:
I have an old HDD which should be replaced soon, actually that HDD stands as my
system disk, what is your suggesion, how should I migrate the FreeBSD 8.1 from
the old disk to the new one?
Attach the new disk to your system and do a dump / restore
On 22-9-2010 20:40, David Brodbeck wrote:
OI may be the only person here who actually likes CUPS. Yes, it's
complicated from a software standpoint, but configuring it is much
less opaque.
You're certainly not the only one liking CUPS. I long hesitated to use
it, but once I'd decided to do
would like to be
able to print from those machines too.
Hope to get some help.
Dick
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On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table.
Can you post the output of 'gpart showdevice' and 'bsdlabeldevices1'?
westmark# gpart show ad8
= 63 976773105 ad8 MBR (466G)
63 9767731051 freebsd [active] (466G)
I dumped/restored the system to ad8 yesterday and booted from it.
The system *did* boot but (alas) the /dev/ads1a(f) slices were mounted.
So, the system loaded the *old* root partitions (from the first drive).
After googling and reading I think I need *boot0cfg* but I'm a bit scary
to ruin my
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote:
My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number.
Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created
On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande Moreamvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote:
My 500Gb drives won't however
On 16-8-2010 23:13, Graeme Dargie wrote:
Bit of a long shot, but have you tried enabling AHCI mode for the sata
drives in the bios and setting ahci_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf
assuming your the board supports it.
I will certainly check this one out. Wouldn't know if my MB supports it.
Hope
On 15-8-2010 3:10, George Hartzell wrote:
Dick Hoogendijk writes:
And how do I make the partition precisely one block smaller than the
slic it lives in?
How do I know what the blocksize is?
Are you using explicit device names to add the disks to your pool? If
so
I run FreeBSD-8.1/amd64. I have used ZFS for four years on
(Open)Solaris, so I have some experience with it. It always served me
very very well. However, I cannot get it to work on my SATA2 drives. At
first I thought they'de suffer from something from there OpenSolaris ZFS
mirroring. So, I
I have a process on v1 which shows STAT RL+
Do I understand it correctly that this process is waiting for a lock?
And if it does this for quite some time it is probably not getting it
and I can wait forever for this process to complete?
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On 14-8-2010 21:24, George Hartzell wrote:
You haven't provided enough information for me to make a concrete
suggestion, but this kind of thing often seems to boil down to
something getting confused over slices and partitions when they both
have the same extent (start-end) on disk. This used
My 1Tb sata2 drives work very well with FreeBSD. They can be sliced,
partitioned and newfs can be run.
However, no matter what I try (sysinstall, gpart) when I slice my 500Gb
drive and create a partition in it (1 block smaller than the slice) I
can not newfs the /dev/ad8s1a
It always end up
I want to transfer a lot of ZFS data from an old OpenSolaris ZFS
mirror (v22) to a new FreeBSD-8.1 ZFs mirror (v14).
If I boot off the OpenSolaris boot CD and import both mirrors will the
copying from v22 ZFS to v14 ZFS be harmless?
I'm not sure if this is teh right mailinglist for this
On 12-8-2010 20:04, David Brodbeck wrote:
On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:10 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I want to transfer a lot of ZFS data from an old OpenSolaris ZFS
mirror (v22) to a new FreeBSD-8.1 ZFs mirror (v14).
I'm NOT a ZFS expert, but I think it should be OK as long as you don't
upgrade
My years of OpenSolaris made me forget the use of releases and branches.
I'm not into too much compiling anymore. I want a stable, but also safe
server.
I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found?
What do I need to run if I want the lates and needed security patches?
I
On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijkd...@nagual.nl wrote:
I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found?
Which brach do I follow?
In this case, use freebsd-update to track -RELEASE; you will
get the security patches
Where does ZFS keeps its data *on disk* for created/exported/imported
vdevs?
Is /etc/zfs the only place or are there other places?
Thanks.
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I'm convinced that ZFS mirroring is far better than gmirroring, but
the latter uses much less memory (I think).
My server has 3Gb and is solely used as server (web, files/nfs/samba,
dns, mail).
The data is serves does not change much, so I would think the data
integrity checks of ZFS although
I'm told it would be better to enable the AHCI driver form my SATA2
drives. It would make ZFS perform better on them. From the release notes
I get:
FreeBSD cam(3)
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=camsektion=3manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE
SCSI framework has been improved and a new
On 10-8-2010 16:00, David Rawling wrote:
On 9/08/2010 2:52 AM, krad wrote:
So I ask you to ponder - at four o'clock in the morning, with mail
down, web servers down and all the disks holding your files failing to
mount - which file system or disk structure would you prefer to try to
I wanted to install ZFS on two 1Tb harddisks. I did a fdisk -I
/dev/ad12 to begin with, but:
GEOM: ad12: the primary GPT table is corrupt or invalid
GEOM: ad12: using the secondary instead -- recovery strongly advised.
OK, I want to follow up on this advice, but HOW?
The corruption probably
On 10-8-2010 16:59, Tim Baird wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k count=1
Then repartition with either fdisk of gpartdepending on disk size
They are 1Tb sata2 disks and I want them fully used for ZFS. Do I need
partions then? The EFI label in OpenSolaris just made the disks
FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 - I spend all evening trying to create a ZFS mirror
on my two 1Tb sata2 drives formerly used under opensolaris (zfs22) I
wiped out the firt mb; i used sysinstall to create a fbsd slice; wiped
it out again; booted knoppix to create an EFI / GPT; booted into
opensolaris and
In addition to my former message, would a total cleaning of both
harddrives be usefull?
I.e. by running |dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad12 or ||dd if=/dev/urandom
of=/dev/ad12
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How can I totally remove a created gmirror (gm0)
I know of the option gmirror forget gm0 but does that make the mirror
disappear?
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On 11-8-2010 0:52, Dale Scott wrote:
wiped out the firt mb; i used sysinstall to create a fbsd slice; wiped
it out again; booted knoppix to create an EFI / GPT; booted into
opensolaris and created a zpool (v14), but nothing, nothing
did the trick.
I was doing a vanilla fbsd install recently
On 11-8-2010 7:05, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On 11-8-2010 0:52, Dale Scott wrote:
[cut the former message..]
I just found out that the process to repair offending disks with GEOM
errors, bad labels etc.. can be repaired a lot quicker.
# gmirror label -vb round-robin gm0 /dev/ad12 ## -- disk
I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch
are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those
amd64 too?
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Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple
of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied.
However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild
my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine
under
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Yes. It works very well.
On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to
speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your
system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to
tweak some loader.conf or
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Yes. It works very well.
On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to
speak) which will work fine for most purposes.
One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid
*server*
It will be a file- email and
of that?? thank you!!
ask adobe - they wrote flash
Flash (Adobe) and FreeBSD don't get along well.
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On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:00:09 +0100
Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote:
I also read/noticed that ZFS seems to run best on AMD64 platforms.
That's not quite correct. ZFS runs best on 64bits platforms.
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