Freebsd-update and release candidates

2011-02-22 Thread Svein Skogen
2RC3 or if I should wait until 8.2 is actually released with the setup (I _CAN_ wait a week or two). Any insight would be appreciated. //Svein -- +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP K

Re: ZFS root pool backup and recovery

2010-10-07 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5461/ghzur?a=view > How well does that method handle a single bit being toggled in transit? //Svein -- +---+------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli

Re: Patrol read errors on Dell Perc 6...

2010-08-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail account)
rs in the most recent run: > *SNIP* Patrol reads are done internally in the controller firmware. You're getting warnings that a disk is failing. Do with that information what you feel is necessary. //Svein -- +---+------- /"\ |Sv

Re: Results of BIND RFC

2010-04-02 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
it to go? We'll end up spending more time updating tidbits of the system now moved to packages, than actually using it. But why stop there? We could do the same to the src/sys/dev subdirectories as well... Let's not do that, please? //Svein -- +---

Re: Does zfs have it's own nfs server?

2010-03-17 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
ng a lot of new features, along them the splendid sysadminfriendliness of having to handle GUIDs on cli. ;) //Svein - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831

Re: Amanda, FreeBSD8, amtype, hairpulling, etc.

2010-03-13 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12.03.2010 15:20, Svein Skogen wrote: > I'm having trouble getting Amanda (2.6.1p2 from ports) to play nicely > with my hardware. > > Devices are: >at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 (sa0,pass0) >at scbus0 ta

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-09 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
ole solutions. They didn't really impress me much, so I ended up using off-the-shelf components for building my servers. Not necessarily cheaper, but at least it's under _MY_ control. //Svein - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein S

Re: hardware for home use large storage

2010-02-08 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
or you'll learn where Illiad (userfriendly.org) got the idea for "Dustpuppy". No matter how pedantic you are about cleaning your house, a computer is basically a large, expensive, vacuum-cleaner and WILL suck in dust from the air. These are some of the pointers I'd like to shar

Re: sendmail replacement

2010-01-24 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
ts aren't touched). This would (potentially) solve the issue, but I'll be the first to admit it has about the same charm as driving a nail with a wrecking ball, but I'm sure some of the brighter minds can do something about it. //Svein - -- - +-------+

Merry Christmas to all on the list!

2009-12-24 Thread Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)
ing a solid software alternative to the shrink-wrap-licensed products. A merry Christmas to all of you! Regards, Svein Skogen - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-22 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
M arc_max, zfs on regular times ate all available resources to flush to disk, leaving the istgt waiting, and iSCSI initiators timed out and had to reconnect. The iSCSI initiators are the built-in software initator in VMWare ESX 4i. //Svein - -- - +---+

Re: 7.2 dies in zfs

2009-11-20 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
le more spitshine in the documentation department. Along with manpages that don't refer to sun manpages never going into FreeBSD. //Svein - -- - +---+------- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9

Re: Extreme console latency during disk IO (8.0-RC1, previous releases also affected according to others)

2009-10-13 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
fi) card with 8 disks on it. This box is running RELENG_7 now (I tried running it with RELENG_8 but it had a nasty tendency of simply locking up, dragging down both my ESXi hosts with it). //Svein - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein S

Question regarding vlans and lagg

2009-09-12 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can the vlan "vlandev" be a lagg port of multiple physical interfaces (for redundancy)? //Svein - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Ø

Re: Compiling world+kernel in RELENG_7 right now

2009-05-27 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail accont)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Svein Skogen (listmail accont) wrote: > For the past 8 or so hours, compiling RELENG_7 breaks down in zfsboot: > > btxld -v -E 0x2000 -f bin -b > /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/zfsboot/../btx/btx/btx -l zfsboot.ldr -o > zfsboot.ld -

Re: Compiling world+kernel in RELENG_7 right now

2009-05-24 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail accont)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > On Sun, 24 May 2009, Svein Skogen (listmail accont) wrote: > > SSla> For the past 8 or so hours, compiling RELENG_7 breaks down in zfsboot: > SSla> > SSla> btxld -v -E 0x2000 -f bin -b > SSla

Compiling world+kernel in RELENG_7 right now

2009-05-24 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail accont)
y does not work properly) //Svein - -- - +---+--- /"\ |Svein Skogen | sv...@d80.iso100.no \ / |Solberg Østli 9| PGP Key: 0xE5E76831 X|2020 Skedsmokorset | sv...@jernhuset.no / \ |Norway | PGP K

Re: HEADS UP: Major CAM performance regression

2009-02-14 Thread Svein Skogen (listmail account)
and disk at a time, instead of overlapping multiple > commands in parallel. This causes significantly higher latency in > servicing moderate and heavy I/O workloads, leading to very poor > performance. Performance can be easily compared by downgrading to > FreeBSD 7.0. Any estimate on when

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-08-23 Thread Svein Skogen
Ken Smith wrote: > We're about to start the release cycle for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. > The proposed schedule for the "major events" of the cycle is: > > Freeze August 29 > BETASeptember 1 > Branch September 6 > 6.4-RC1 Septembe