Re: [OmniOS-discuss] How bad are these controller / io errors??

2013-08-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
SATA drives behind SAS expanders have a pathological error case. If a drive encounters errors and it needs to be reset then the entire set of drives will take the reset. If any io is in flight this will error as a result often causing another reset. The result can best be described as a

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] How bad are these controller / io errors??

2013-08-20 Thread Garrett D'Amore
Can't agree more here. Desktop firmwares are designed to try harder to never return an error. While this is what home users want, it's an anathema to large configurations with redundancy where you would prefer to just get the error so you can handle it - usually by doing the op on another

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] rsyslogd package on ms.omniti.com

2013-08-20 Thread Eric Sproul
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Heinz Nikolaus Gies he...@licenser.net wrote: Hi a little 'bug' report: the rsyslogd package does not include the config file it uses as a package file: /opt/omni/etc/rsyslogd.conf this leads to the effect that the file gets removed when the last other

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] rsyslogd package on ms.omniti.com

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Nikolaus Gies
Hi Eric, thanks for the reply :). To be honest I'm not a expert on rsyslog either I just want to include it to ship data to papertrais so SmartOS includes the following default configu: https://gist.github.com/Licenser/6282774 which looks rather sensible to me. Cheers, Heinz On Aug 20, 2013,

[OmniOS-discuss] Installing OmniOS

2013-08-20 Thread Heinz Nikolaus Gies
Hi, I've been trying (and finally succeeded after about 4 days) in installing OmniOS and wanted to give a little feedback. Since it was a very frustrating experience let me start with saying that, despite that I really enjoy OmniOS now that it is on the system ;) and that your guys work on the

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Installing OmniOS

2013-08-20 Thread Hugh McIntyre
On Tue, August 20, 2013 8:39 am, Heinz Nikolaus Gies wrote: Since it will propably be very hard to make a good graphical installer and get rid of all the bugs (even so the crashes might be worth fixing) it would be very cool if there was a way to drop in the console, set up the disks/pools/etc

Re: [OmniOS-discuss] Advanced format disks – 512E

2013-08-20 Thread Matthew Frazer
This is a question I've been meaning to ask as well. Using the information at http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/ZFS+and+Advanced+Format+disks I've edited the sd.conf on my systems to include the drives I wish to have 4k sector sizes on. On Solaris 11.1 this achieves the proper ashift on 4k