On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:00 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> Are the FreeBSD 10.2 instructions (
> https://www.netgate.com/docs/platforms/rcc-dff-2220/freebsd.html) still
> valid for 11.1?
>
>
>- Connect the console cable (I have that setup)
>- Boot from from a memstick image plugged into the U
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Zandr Milewski
> wrote:
>
> > As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding,
> and
> > restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in environments
> > with less-that-datacent
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 11:10 AM, Zandr Milewski wrote:
> As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding, and
> restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in environments
> with less-that-datacenter grade power availability, I'll take "potential
> corruption in
As someone who has spent easily 100 hours troubleshooting, rebuilding,
and restoring UFS based Netgate boxes that have to function in
environments with less-that-datacenter grade power availability, I'll
take "potential corruption in corner cases" over "1 in 4 chance it won't
come back from a p
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:18 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> don't use ECC. Can anyone show why my solution should switch file systems
> (given that I'm keeping my existing hardware) without changing the subject?
> I've read many of the scare stories from FreeNAS and they all seem to end
> up as a call
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Peder Rovelstad
wrote:
> > That is an urban legend. One of original developers of ZFS was
> > interviewed
>
> OK, then. Not my data. Best of luck.
>
> I've had other ZFS servers without ECC that have run successfully for
several years. I know the risks and issues
> That is an urban legend. One of original developers of ZFS was
> interviewed
OK, then. Not my data. Best of luck.
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> without ECC. If there is a time bomb, then it exists for all file systems
> running on computers without ECC. As this one of multiple backups for the
> system, the risks are acceptable.
>
> If you have an actual failure method that makes ZFS
sage-
> From: List [mailto:list-boun...@lists.pfsense.org] On Behalf Of Vick Khera
> Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 8:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2
>
> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad
> wrote:
OH, and w/o ECC memory, it's a time bomb.
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Oh, fo
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad
wrote:
> Here's a ZFS tuning guide if you have not seen.
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
>
> But only goes to v9.
>
You 100% do
On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Peder Rovelstad
wrote:
> Here's a ZFS tuning guide if you have not seen.
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFSTuningGuide
>
> But only goes to v9.
>
You 100% do not want nor need to turn on de-dupe. Especially on a boot
volume of pfSense.
0% of its 4GB RAM for a 3TB volume, configured with
1.75GB arc_max.
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Subject: Re: [pfSense] ZFS on 2.4.2
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On Mar 6, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
>
>> ZFS is a memory hog. you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk.
>
>
> Curtis, can you provide some more details? I have been testing this for the
> last couple of weeks and ZFS does
On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 6:38 PM, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> ZFS is a memory hog. you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk.
Curtis, can you provide some more details? I have been testing this for the
last couple of weeks and ZFS doesn't require 1G for each TB to function
(which is the standard mea
ZFS is a memory hog. you need 1 GB of RAM for each TB of disk.
On 3/1/2018 1:49 AM, Walter Parker wrote:
Forgot to CC the list.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
Thank you for the backup script.
By my calculations, 2G should be enough. If I limit the ARC cache to 1G,
Here's my simple backup script function. Just stick it into a /bin/sh
script (should work in bash too) and call it once per pfSense instance.
I've been using this for years to backup my production firewalls.
pfsense_config()
{
local FWNAME FWURL FWPASS CSRF CSRF2 COOKIEFILE PFDATE
FWNAME="
Forgot to CC the list.
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 10:13 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> Thank you for the backup script.
>
> By my calculations, 2G should be enough. If I limit the ARC cache to 1G,
> that leaves 1G for applications & kernel memory. As I'm not serving the 6TB
> drive up as a file server,
You don't need to export the pool on shutdown. Even an unclean shutdown
should survive automatically on the reboot.
I can't think of a reason ZFS would fail like you describe.
On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Walter Parker wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2.4.2 installed on an SG-2220 from Netgate [nic
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